I find it a little difficult sometimes to let my daughter go on trips like this, because I'm her father and I've looked out for her my whole life. I'm still getting used to this whole growing up and spread the wings stuff with her. I trust her. She's a good girl with a very good head on her shoulders.
I am a little nostalgic for the days when she really depended on me, when she really was my little girl. Childhood is slipping away, and that makes me a little sad. I miss braiding her hair and saying prayers with her at night. I do not miss Dora the Explorer.
Saint Marty is thankful for his beautiful daughter.
We Remember Your Childhood Well
by: Carol Ann Duffy
Nobody hurt you. Nobody turned off the light and argued
with somebody else all night. The bad man on the moors
was only a movie you saw. Nobody locked the door.
Your questions were answered fully. No. That didn't occur.
You couldn't sing anyway, cared less. The moment's a blur, a Film Fun
laughing itself to death in the coal fire. Anyone's guess.
Nobody forced you. You wanted to go that day. Begged. You chose
the dress. Here are the pictures, look at you. Look at us all,
smiling and waving, younger. The whole thing is inside your head.
What you recall are impressions; we have the facts. We called the tune.
The secret police of your childhood were older and wiser than you, bigger
than you. Call back the sound of their voices. Boom. Boom. Boom.
Nobody sent you away. That was an extra holiday, with people
you seemed to like. They were firm, there was nothing to fear.
There was none but yourself to blame if it ended in tears.
What does it matter now? No, no, nobody left the skidmarks of sin
on your soul and laid you wide open for Hell. You were loved.
Always. We did what was best. We remember your childhood well.
Maybe the next time someone wants to take your daughter somewhere, you can clutch her close and yell, "Swiper no swiping!" Three times very loud should do the trick.
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