A love in verse

Cassie, Fifteen

1992-02-11
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Now you have made a great day.

As sleep draws curtains over Cassie’s mind

Sweet and lasting things are left behind

And settle in her heart. Late day

And slumber see our sweet girl’s life

A little richer forever; my dearest wife

My Allie, mother of our birthday child

So practised in the science of the heart

These lessons in tenderness are filed

Away in my heart too: I learn your art

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Thanks to God

With Allie singing round the place

Gracing the stairs as I say my prayers

Letting the sun start from her face...

Melancholy January

Sun long gone soon after four

Trees against the sky, no more

With leaves, they claw the dimming cloud...