30 Day Poetry Challenge: Day 5: DAUGHTERS
Day 5: Daughters This word was taken from my friends book, The Baron Would be Proud by Mike Jack Stoumbos, pg. 161 My Daughters I collect my thoughts these days and press them into journals bend them with wire and found beach glass store them in boxes I save these lessons learned in tissue paper and class bottles I save these memories for my daughters to bring out, hold treasured in cupped hands whisper their stories by dim lamp light and soft blankets I will pull back my sleeves and show old scars my stories of love and pain sing them songs of chances taken and adventures sought fairy tales to teach this new generation that they do not need to be saved by the prince nor do they need to do the saving but rather are guardians of their own souls and need only save themselves