The Empty Nest

Her curly hair is precious to me,

I’ve counted each freckle that you see.

With every sunset she grows older.

I would like to forever hold her.

 

Then she goes off to school every day,

And I miss her more than I can say.

Her friends are more important than me.

Whatever happened to family?

 

Prom is a night I won’t soon forget,

She had on a dress of violet.

Her hair in curls, a smile on her face —

She was truly all beauty and grace.

 

With honors she was a grad that year,

And hard for me not to shed a tear.

To college she was then gone away —

I knew she’d come back another day.

 

After four years she finds her true love,

The man she’d always been dreaming of.

Now she was going to be his wife;

Together they would start a new life.

 

So now my darling has left my nest,

I know that everything’s for the best.

But I’ll always dream of that little girl

With all those freckles and lovely curls!