Pappa

• Danielle Menouhos, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2012

Yonder are clouds, sitting in the sky
Your smile is so loud, so astounding are your eyes.
Distance can't destroy, nor time can't wither
But when I imagine you gone, my heart does quiver.

Mischievous tears seem to want to escape,
But you are a sponge and so the waters of sadness can no longer scrape.
The sun peeks through the shoving clouds for you, without force
The moon with it's jealous glow misses the sight of you, and so it does remorse.

I loathe the day your smile fades and the pureness in your heart is impossibly seen,
Because with your warmth and your voice, my life is so serene.
If fate is cruel and the stars agree
You will always remain part of my heart; part of me.

However the clouds seem content as they remain still in the sky
Looking down at your deafening smile and your ever beautiful eyes.
Nothing can compare, distance nor time
And feel I have described the total you, in just a couple of truthful rhymes.