Precious Jasmine, now fourteen,part child, part woman,
struggling with transition.
Standing in the water, her feet
still touch sand below. Too soon
for me, rising tide will sweep her
into the deep. I hope she's learned
to swim well enough, hold her breath,
tread water when it gets too rough.
I pray rip currents
don't take her out before I've had
a chance to tell her one more
time how beautiful she is, how
special. Fourteen isn't long, when
you think about it, alive just fourteen
years. She's learned so much.
A lifetime more to learn the rest,
I want to be a rock, an island
she can swim to. If she will.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2012
Happy birthday to my beautiful granddaughter Jasmine!
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