For My Daughters

A new poem for my daughters (not included in the new book Letter U).

I declare it, with every my line –

You have an amazing power, –

The power is like a flower 🌺

Nurture it, let it shine!

The power is in your soul, –

The beauty that shines from your heart,

The fire, that sparkles and growth

Together with you, my sweetheart! 😘

The wisdom, that learns from failures

And keeps you from future mistakes,

The courage, that teaches you values,

The textbooks could never forsake.

The light is there to help you

And guide you to do what is right,

I pray every day that it lets you

To see all the beauty, in spite

Of the boredom and loneliness

In spite of the grief and pain

In spite of the creed and madness

In freedom, that is pure and sain.

I cannot offer you money,

I have no house to claim,

But neither had you, my honey,

When you came to my life and remained

My soul, my cure, my beauty,

The one to adore and love, –

I called you cutie-patootie,

My pinky, my bunny, my dove!

You taught me to laugh at devil,

In spite of the blood and falls,

You taught me to be stronger than evil,

Like there is no evil at all!

Do not leave me, my love, forgive me

For I had to live apart,

If only I could, believe me,

I’d always be with you, my heart.