A Pink Strawberry
Poem by Michael Ferguson for his daughter Mikelynn Brooke
Ancillary, fiduciary,
Can I have a pink strawberry?
Pink is ink that?s on the brink,
She?s used it all,
That?s what I think.
She?s done her toes,
Some on her nose,
There she stands
Set in a pose.
Her smile is blue,
Lipstick, who knew?
What that little girl,
In no time could do.
Her shirt is new,
The third today,
There?ll be some more,
She?s on her way.
I should have known
When I didn?t hear,
But now I enter
Her room with fear.
When she?s quiet
That spells trouble,
Oh! Her floor
Beneath the rubble.
Mikelynn! I call
And she appears,
But I can?t start
Her raining tears.
She?s a girl, she?s playing
She?s made a mess,
But make no mistake
She?s still the best.
After all, look,
She?s so small,
But what she?s built
It?s towering tall.
Her mounds of clothes
Could make a mall,
Don?t climb from there
You could take a fall.
I smile and think,
One day she?ll grow,
and looking back
I know I?ll know.
That on that day of
Blue and pink,
I stood and stared
And didn?t blink.
I soaked it in
And filed away
A mem-ory,
A happy day.
Blue and pink,
A girl I think,
That she above
All else I love.
A girl at play,
Blue and pink today.
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