Timeless Truth And Youth

Listening to my daughter's Youth and Beauty playlist on Spotify

My new day begins
Turn on the tech, turn on the music,
Spot my friends: my daughter pops up!
I browse your playlist and stumble upon
Youth and Beauty
And realize my new day is also old.

A thought-path arises to escape this truth:
Life should allow me to be your friend...
Your twenty-two year old friend,
Living youth and beauty with you
For I not only love you, I like you
I like where you go, who you see,
​what you believe...

This wish hovers in the timeless space between
One breath of hope in, one breath of truth out:
Creation would never allow me
Such two blessings at once.
I cannot be your friend and mother.
My love is too deep to be friendly.
It's fierce, whole, forever.