Someone's Daughter

A treasure box constructed of solid gold
Built to shield a new young life.
In your own image, you cast the mold
A sincere attempt to guard her from strife.

You built her a golden cage with care,
Bars forged from fear and lined with prayer.
To shield her from the beast outside
Its teeth, its claws, the world’s cruel tide.

But cages, no matter how softly sealed,
Shrink for the soul that longs to feel.
While trying to keep her world controlled,
You let your warm heart grow cold

Have you forgotten your own reflection,
Now that you don a permanent disguise?
Does the memory of your face scorch your heart
Is that why you won’t look into her eyes?

She's bold like her father, brave like her mother,
Her fire and fight, like yours and no other.
The beast’s relentless bites turned your loving heart to stone,
With great tragedy, now her strength feels not like your own.

Have you forgotten it was your beauty that shaped her face,
The reverberating echo of yourself time will never erase.
In her lives what you can no longer see
Your courage, your spark, your legacy.

I searched for your gaze to feel like I belonged,
To be seen, to be held, to know that I was strong.
But when your eyes turned away from me
I learned to become the one I needed to be

I met that girl who waited for your grace
The one you overlooked, the one you couldn’t face.
And in that mirror, I came to see
She’s certainly someone’s daughter
And now that someone is me.

I gathered the pieces you left behind,
And forged them into a self-defined.
To break the cage that held me still
Because I embody our fire, our resilience, the iron will.
A voice from the stars hummed through my chest,
"She is you, returned from the quest"

Your shadow fades as my light expands.
I rise, unshaken, with my own hands.
I hold the girl I used to be,
With love passed down ancestrally.

The girl I cradle is both yours and mine,
Her heartbeat echoes through lineage, through time.
In loving her, I set us free
Your story, my story,
One legacy.

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[Joss Jeffrey]

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