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Cinderella Dreams
Mama’s little baby girl comes running down the hall
With plastic slippers that won’t fit on little feet so small
She has lipstick on her face and milk stains on her chin
Pulling at the ruffled hem from the too big gown she’s in
Climbing high on my big bed to powder up her nose
Begging me to put some pink nail polish on her toes
She has Cinderella dreams and a dimple in her chin
A hug that sends me to the moon and takes me there again
Eyes so full of stars because she fell from heaven’s sky
She’s everything that’s beautiful and I can’t help but cry
I pull her close to smell her hair and gently kiss her head
The entire world’s a fairytale upon that great big bed
She then becomes a princess and I her mother queen
Residing in a castle filled with gumdrops and ice cream
Where storybooks and nursery rhymes come to life each day
Everything’s so easy as we play each day away
I’ll love you yes for always and I’ll never let you go
I promise I won’t leave you Mama how I love you so
But this big world has captured you and taken you away
Now somehow you’ve forgotten all the lovely things you’d say
She has Cinderella dreams and a dimple in her chin
A hug that sends me to the moon and takes me there again
Eyes so full of stars because she fell from heaven’s sky
She’s everything that’s beautiful and I can’t help but cry
He’s taken her away from me and I don’t have a clue
Why he won’t say those little words like darling I love you
Tell her that she’s everything and more to him it seems
That he is not the prince inside her Cinderella dreams
Each night I take her picture down and gaze into her face
Her beauty grace and elegance my trembling fingers trace
Praying she will find the peace that only comes within
Knowing your true beauty is so far beneath your skin
But she has Cinderella dreams and a dimple in her chin
A hug that sends me to the moon and takes me there again
Eyes so full of stars because she fell from heaven’s sky
She’s everything that’s beautiful and I can’t help but cry
©Kay Salady
My entry for the Poetry Picnic Week 20 for Jingle Poetry’s Gooseberry Garden!