BECAUSE YOU'RE
MY LITTLE GIRL
I still remember
the day I went to the
hospital to see my little girl for the very
first. She was so tiny and fragile but
I couldn't wait to hold you in my arms
and give a sweet kiss because you were
my little girl.
I remember
watching you learn to
sit and how proud your were when you
finally did, I remember your first lounge
as you tried to crawl and then how you
got up on all fours and started to
crawl, you crawled to me and I picked
you up because your were my little girl.
I remember
as we put you in the
little walker to teach you how to walk
how proud you were when you pulled
yourself to me, then I took the walker
away and watched and cheered and you
took your first steps because you were
my little girl.
Then came the time
when I had to go
away to a far off land and fight a
foreign people I didn't know, and as I
was over there I prayed everyday for the
children I had to leave to fight a people
I knew not why, but I thought about
the little girl I left at home because you
were my little girl.
I went to a
war and was in-charge
of so many good young men, and I
looked into their eyes and said I have to
protect them everyone, and when I saw
them fall one by one the pain I felt was
beyond any I had felt before, they were
so young and so innocent just like my
little ones I had back home, I cried and
I cried as they fell and said oh my God
why is this so, and swore I'd never let
my precious little one know what I had
seen so I thought of my children back
at home especially my little one because
she was my little girl.
When I returned
home to my family
I wasn't the same as before because of
all the pain and sorrow that i had seen,
I could tell a soul not even my family, I
saw them did one by one and they were
under my charge and I knew I couldn't
protect them from there fate and it tore
me deep inside to see them die right
before my eyes,
I had nightmares
for a long time
and I didn't know what to do so I hid
them from you all for fear that you
would find out what I had seen so all I
did was think of you and tried to keep
the pain away because you were my
little girl.
I watched you
struggle all through
school, I was so proud of all your A's
and B's and rejoiced at your pride, and
took you aside to help you bring the C's
and D's back up to A's and B's because
you were my little girl.
Then came high
school and you
thought you were so big because you
were just like your brothers and sisters,
so big and so strong, I watched to
become a beautiful young lady as you
grew and was afraid id have to chase
away all the boys as they came to
swoon my little girl, i watched you
dress for your first prom and cried
because you'd grown so fast and I
wanted you keep you my little girl.
Them came the
proudest day when I
heard them call your name at
graduation day because I knew that all
you hard work had been so good and
you were finally graduating and
becoming a smart, beautiful young lady
full of hope and joy of what was going
to happen in this world to my little
girl.
Well, as the
years have come and
gone we both have struggled to keep
from crying at the thought of all the
things that we gave done wrong in our
lives, but I want you to know that you
will always me daddy's little girl, and I
will always want to protect you from
all the bad that has happened in your
life because you were daddies little girl.
So as I write this poem to you I
want you to know that I love you and
always will know matter where you go
and what you do I will be proud of you
and will always say the you were my
little girl.
© by James H. Meyer
Email:
Armysgm172@aol.com
You are Visitor Number
Since May 17, 2000
. May America,
Never, Never, Never Forget
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