this is a photo album and an unabashed love letter to my family

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Who'd have ever thought?




Everything she sees, she says she wants. Everything she wants, I see she gets.
That’s my daughter in the water,
everything she owns I bought her.
Everything she owns.
That’s my daughter in the water, everything she knows I taught her.
Everything she knows.
Everything I say she takes to heart. Everything she takes she takes apart.
That’s my daughter in the water,
every time she fell I caught her.
Every time she fell.
That’s my daughter in the water, I lost every time I fought her.
I lost every time.
Every time she blinks,
she strikes somebody blind.
Everything she thinks, blows her tiny mind.
That’s my daughter in the water, who’d have ever thought her?
Who’d have ever thought?
That’s my daughter in the water,
I lost everytime I fought her Yeah, I lost every time.

~Loudon Wainwright III

2 comments:

Marie D. said...

She is a sparkle in everybody's life especially yours. And, yes, she will beat you every time and make your heart melt...

Anonymous said...

I love that poem...
I shed a little tear.