ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Sixteen Years.

"Your children are on loan to you."
I hate that point of view.
I'll invest my very soul
Until my life is through.

I sit with cardboard boxes
and I don't hold back the tears.
She's moving to the city -
it's been only sixteen years!

I'm packing little houses,
little dolls and fluffy bears.
She's packing little shorts and tops
and things a young girl wears.

Sneakily I secret in
old photos of our clan
Sneakily she secrets in
a lipstick - 'cause she can.

Our family tree has fruited
many confident young girls.
Not cellophane and tinsel -
but hardened, polished pearls.

Lovely metaphors again, Wendy! They are becoming your trademark.

Cheers
Shelley

Thanks Shelley....little ol' metaphorical me!

Good use of the prompts linked to an unavoidable fact. Nicely done Wendy