In Your Slumber

         In Your Slumber

            As you lay in your slumber

            I watch you.

            I see you in your restful state

            And hope your dreams are sweet.

            I smile at you and sigh a sigh

            One only I will hear.

            I know you soon will grow

            To be a beauty and you’ll leave.

            But for now, you are with me

            And so it’s meant to be.

            The times we have I’ll treasure

            This love we share,

            Will stay embedded in my mind

            You’ll always know I care.

            Your first day of school will be

            Our very first goodbye.

            The day you enter college I know

            I’ll surely cry.

              And on the day that 

            You will wed.

            I’ll be choking back the tears,

            As I think of all the fun we had

            Throughout the many years.

            You are my precious daughter

            I’ll always love you so

            And through the years of laughter

            I hope you’ll always know.

            As you lay there in your slumber

            I watch you....

           With tears in my eyes.