Little Girl

She was just a baby that grew into a woman. A little girl who stole my heart away. I watched her grow, and it went to fast if I only knew how short the time would be I would of been more of a daddy than a father who was away. If I could of done more if I would of spent more time playing instead of angry words. She left home before she finished school. Could not take the stress of home anymore. I see myself in her and the decisions she making in the way I once lived when I thought I knew it all.  If I could go back, live a different life a life of love, patience, and understanding instead of quick tempered and hateful words. She is my baby girl whom I miss having at home.  But she grew up spread her wings flying away. "Little boy blue and the man in the moon" is a song that is so close to home. I swore I would not be the man that my father was to me, but I treated my daughters the same way he treated me, driving one of them away. I am much older now, I know the error of my ways, I know I can't turn back time. I can however show my love for her helping her in away I can. I might not agree with the choices she makes, but that is where she will learn wisdom is from the mistakes she will make.  No matter what she does she is still my daughter a child that God in trusted to me for a very short time.  As she begins her adult life may she ever be reminded that I love her that God is with her that she may of learned what to do and not to do when she has a family of her own. We have our children for a very short time you will tuck them in bed one night and the next day it seems they are moving away. If we had a little more time to figure it all out, just maybe we could be the parents that we should of been. But we don't so while they are little play a little longer spend less time working and complaining speak words of love and not so much screaming. They are only with us for a very short time.