Linda & Valerie

I wrote this for a very long time friend of mine as her daughter is returning after a year of school in Italy I think??? Not sure. Never was good with those far away places.......anyway, to Linda & Valerie.......I love you all.

A Mother & Daughter Time went so slowly this past year for me I thought of you, worried about you....wondered if you thought of me Worlds apart from each other only a plane ride could narrow I wanted to check on you, touch you, hear you and smell you Your familiar fragrance when the door opened Was it shampoo? Rinse? Maybe your lotion? This house was so quiet while you were gone To just hear your footsteps in the hall......how I longed! To know you were safe I would have given it all To know you'd return soon with that smile I missed so Now here you are with stories for all of the year that my heart broke (but I'd never tell) You grew and learned new things that I couldn't bring you I can see now you were as anxious to tell me as I am to hear them A mother and daughter learn this part together When you let go we trust it isn't forever It's only until lessons are learned And now time has given us new pages to turn Together or apart the first lesson we've discovered Is the undying love between a daughter and mother.