For me, ’15 ’s significant –
That’s when I was licensed to preach the Gospel.
But “four” Ms. Teen, it’ s magnificent –
It’s a new year to breathe through her nostrils!
It seems impossible that my second born’s
birthday is weeks away.
Though she’s been a teen for a year or two,
She sings with seniors as her peer group…
So, I just need souvenir or two to capture
some wordplay as keepsakes:
That’s why I’ve found a few salvaged references
From 2011 –
What amounts to countless testaments and trivial factoids.
Trivial facts from trivial factors.
Trivial acts from trivial actors…
All minimal in stature next to her pivotal and unmatched joy.
First, there’s her birthday twin: Natalie Portman
Who provides our family a portent:
The Academy actually awarded her an Oscar in 20-11!
That’s the year the Kee three were bluntly introduced
To Maiyah’s “front and center view”…
Giving us content for future interviews proving
when we knew she had something precious!
To remind her of that, her middle name
sets stunning precedence
Just in case the beauty of this underling was ever subjected
To ugly second-guessing –
either from within or others’ slack jaws.
From sandy duckling to Belle of the Ball,
She “who resembles Jehovah” sits atop
playbills while pelicans awe…
Her elegance draws – even Heartless eyes
cry rivers for this Black Swan.
We already knew she’d come from heaven –
Our Daily Bread just needed a second.
She’s such a blessin’ to the Glee of a Loser Like Me.
Thanks to her, I lost my temper –
Buried deep from my darkest ventures…
Purged to preserve our father-daughter bond engendered –
had I kept it, I would’ve lost my Kees.
Rather, her birth saved my surfacing family
From the monster within who was lurking and damaging.
Perfectly maddening me from my job’s demeaning postures.
She saw it within me in haunting depths –
Prompting me to cut it out like Johnny Deep…
Leaving my heir paused and swept ‘til I tapered
the capers of this demon barber.
With our Family Ties stretched yet strengthened,
Thanks to the presence of our second addition,
We possess a vision that’s clear from present danger.
Released from past haunts and traumas,
my sight’s set back to the future.
Thanks to my Michaela J. Fox-of-a-daughter –
She managed to vanish and banish this attacking bruiser…
Biff, Boom, Bap!… and just like that,
I’m the Dad of a crooner who’s ahead of her manger!
Rather, as a gift to the world,
my daughter’s ahead of her timeline.
As she riffs and rips what’s rehearsed,
she proves she’s been bred for the limelight.
Just when you’ve pegged her for primetime,
she’ll switch up to teach second fiddle to toddlers.
There’s no ego at all in her center.
She’s like a bald eagle who evolved for our splendor…
Calm and regal with her Mom as her mentor –
she abounds with vested potential and honor.
(Natalie Portman, Johnny Depp, and Michael J. Fox all share 6/9 as a birthday)
