Father and Daughter

 

Heavenly Father,

I praise Your name and thank you

for amazing grace

and Your love, so undeserved.

You are my Savior.

 

Sweet Mandi, my child,

I loved you before you knew me.

Let not your heart be

troubled. I will not forsake

you; Be-lov-ed, you are mine.

(A somonka is a pair of tankas from two different voices that carry a central theme of love. It can be romantic, platonic, brotherly, sibling, from a parent to a child, etc. Each tanka is composed of five lines with a 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count.)