Watching in Wonder

While he watches

She's in  white tulle,

on pointe, reaching

for whatever

and finding herself.

He returns from work

to find her waiting,

and then she whispers

"Wishes" at the flames

of twenty-one candles.

And he wakes to find her

waiting in white

to walk the aisle

on Daddy's arm

at her wedding.

She becomes a wife

as they cut

a whimsical cake

with winged dragonflies.

And she's taken flight.

Leaving him to wonder

where the years went

as he smiles down into

the wrinkled face of

her newborn daughter.

And he watches

her in white tulle,

on pointe, reaching for

whatever.

© 2010 Tamera Dobbins