To our Daughter

You are a rainstorm

finding solace

in the fault lines

of a million thougts

Systemization

makes your head go round

You wish we would 

make it stop

You are a whisper

making time from

scraps of love

Taught us how to live

in extracts of touches

Your dreams are like paintings

we watch you mix in the water

When you finish, it's a 

single moment

Like a paradox

You are mistakes

we learnt how to fix

You brushed new earth

over the cracks in the grave

As we struggled, invertebrate,

over the shallows of this ocean

you took our hand, led us into

your secrets

fixed us with the music of truth

When worries are like the

mobiles we hung 

over the cot where

you used to sleep

You pinch the bridges of

your nose

an expression of things that

fly away

And we do

When night comes 

you carve our story,

the sky your unending canvas

We love you because

you wrote our stars