You came into my life
after a journey
of ten years.
You nestled against my chest
a complete miracle
I could not believe was mine.
Some say
good things take time
– and they are right.
You are
the sunshine
that I crave in mid-winter.
My mother said, ‘I don’t wish you ill,
but I do wish for you a daughter
that will be worse than you!’
She was wrong
because you are
not anything like me.
You are you – uniquely you!
And I love you
when we laugh,
when we argue,
when I am bristling
and you are impatient,
and I can sit back, relaxed.
Then, but only then,
do I see the similarity
between us.
Hiking Poet 