Slipping Through My Fingers

It happened overnight. Just yesterday, this little baby was placed in my arms - and I floundered. I tried the best I could, but I didn't seem to know what to do with her. Five years later, I'm floundering again. I just don't seem to know what I'm doing. She's. . .

Slipping Through My Fingers

Schoolbag in hand

She leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye

With an absent-minded smile

I watch her go

With a surge of that well-known sadness

And I have to sit down for a while

The feeling that I'm loosing her forever

And without really entering her world

I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes

Her and me at the breakfast table

Barely awake

I let precious time go by

Then when she's gone

There's that odd melancholy feeling

And a sense of guilt

I can't deny

What happened to the wonderful adventures

The place I had planned for us to go

Well some of that we did

But most we didn't

And why I just don't know

Slipping though my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

And save it from the funny tricks of time

Slipping though my fingers

Schoolbag in hand
She leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

I had a hard day today.

I'm floundering.

Lost.

My little girl has gone and grown up on me. . .

and without my permission.

It just doesn't seem fair.

I love you, Cadence.

You're my little girl -

the one I held in arms not long ago.

I wish I could go back in time and fix all the heartache.

I wish I could take you to all the places of wonder and mystery your little heart desires.

I want to hold onto that little hand forever.

Be your best friend.

Always.

Even if you have to grow up. . .

Please don't forget me.

Your mom.

I need you.

Forever.