Daughter of a Queen
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Daughter of a Queen
She is a child
With short curly hair
And big brown eyes that
Look at her mother with pride.
Her mother is queen and she will be too.
She practices by laying down
the law while standing in her highchair.
Her parents do not applaud.
She is now a young scholar,
a good friend, and daughter.
But above all she knows she is blessed,
by the only one who knows the future of her quest.
With her curly hair pulled back
she jumps at the world
with her morals and standards
learned from her mother and father
who just roll their eyes upward.
She knows what she wants
and is ready to get it.
She will challenge all objects
That stand in her way;
a born go getter they say.
She thought she was a dancer
who rose on her toes;
not at all like her mother
who just swim swam swum.
O’ how she was wrong,
now a high school senior she sees
her mistake. She is very much like her mother;
more than any other. She is ready to commit
her life to the pool even
when she goes away to school.
Off to college not quite yet ready
to leave her home friends and family.
She sees strength in her mother’s eyes
but knows it will be hard to say goodbye.
She looks in the mirror
hoping to find
the love strength and pride
she still sees in her mother’s eyes.
In that mirror she sees a glimmer of what she hopes to be
A young adult with goals set in mind
she sets off on her own quest
to find the rest of her queen inside.