My First and Only

My first and only daughter

Brings so much joy and laughter

I had her when I was twenty-three

When I was young, independent and free.

No one said it would be easy

And it would be a simple responsibility.

Unplanned, it changed myself

Unprepared, I tried my best.

With countless struggles and tears

We were able to overcome thirteen years.

Looking back, I would never change anything

Because I know she is themost precious gift.

My once self-centered old self

Turned into a selfless mother.

With my first and only daughter

My life became so much better

My world started to grow

With lots of red, orange andyellow

And all the colors of the rainbow

Each year, the colored candles we blow

Everything and everyone's love we owe

From above who guided us all along

And never made me feel I was wrong

For raising my first and only child

And for the path anddirection I choose to take and glide.