Daddy's Big Girl

Daddy’s Big Girl

He buys you your first Barbie,

You play with it all day,

You braid her hair and ask him how she looks,

You are his Barbie, But very pretty he says

He carries you around till you fall asleep,

And suddenly you grow up enough

To cheat him and pretend to sleep

Speak to your boyfriends late in the night

He knows it all but his love for you lets it go

He hold’s your little finger when you learn to walk

Soon you want to leave it and run.

He yearns to stop you

But you want to listen to none

You go out there get your heart broken

He’s still waiting there totally unspoken,

He wants you to get up face the world

He holds you till you can hold your head high

Go back and look eye to eye.

You grow up and Color your hair,

Make tattoos and add despair,

He hates it you always knew

But you want to do it and not care.

He lets you be, Because he loves you and cannot free.

It takes you a while to realize,

Then you set on a mission to make him proud,

When you climb that stage, for a performance or just a little speech,

That’s my daughter he screams,

There’s So much pride in his eyes you can see

Time passes by and you continue to make him proud’

He has given you the ability,

To make an identity in the crowd

Don’t forget how you grew, that’s what has made you.

Nothing out of the womb you knew.

All the mistakes you made,

He still loves you so much for god’s Sake.

He will never want to see you cry

So when you choose a man, make sure he can Love you half as much

Today you want to walk the aisle

He is a happy man, just for a while,

The day you leave he’s going to watch you grow again,

In the memories you left in photo frames,

With that weary teary eye and an almost chocked throat

He will make a prayer

To grant you all that he couldn't

To keep you happier than you were,

And god forbid if the need be,

To let you know he is here for you with open arms

So you need not fear any other man’s harms

 

Because the way your Daddy loved you

No other man can.