My Daughter, My Shining Light

My Daughter, My Shining Light

My daughter, my guardian, my friend,

With the strength of the lioness

and the heart of an angel.

My heart struggles daily to stay alit,

Like a candle flickering in the stillness of dusk

fighting to hold its light like

the burning light in the heart of my daughter.

Long before I allowed the pain of life

to try and harden my loving heart, causing me

to look at life with such effort

to love, to trust and to hope

and to not become the woman who almost lost her flame,

But to be like the woman my daughter became.

Sandra Reid to my Heidi