Daddy Don’t Forget

 

Daddy,

don’t forget

me. I’m still

your little girl.

I may

be

older

now, but

you know I’ll

always need you.

You’ve always

known

the

answer, no

matter the question.

Everything is changing.

I see

the

question

in your

eyes and pray

that God gives

me the

right

answer.

Even when

you cannot remember

me, you are

still my

father.

 

****A hay(na)ku is a three line poem where the first line consists of one word, the second line has two, and the third line is composed of three words. A reverse hay(na)ku is three lines composed in the opposite fashion, of three words, then two, and one word for the final line. In the 2019 Poetry Marathon, I created the “Mirror hay(na)ku” by combining a hay(na)ku with a reverse hay(na)ku. In 2020, I took things a step further by compiling five mirror hay(na)ku stanzas and calling it a Hall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku.****