She was dying in my arms

Just laying there dying

Raising a hand to hold her close

But now I held a baby?

Not the girl I’d once loved

But it was, her I mean

In the beginning

Before I loved her

Smiling and looking back at her again

A preteen? She was now a young girl

Her eyes warm and sweet with a smile

I imagine this would have been our daughter

Blinking for a second and the preteen has changed

Sixteen? She was now sixteen

Old enough to drive she had keys in her hand

I focus my eyes on her, and she changed

One last time

She was now, the girl id loved

A beautiful 26 year old with hope dying in her eyes

I held her close wish time would just stop

Little did I know it had

Some magical power had given me time to grow up with my love

But it is time to let go now, because Time had run out