To My Youngest Daughter on her 18th Birthday 



I like your face with shining eyes

I cannot stop to stare.

It's real fun to recognize

How much, my girl, we share.



Not only the way you look!

I feel the hidden link

In everything you gently took,

The way you speak and think.

You look like me, but what a joke –

Here is a great improvement

In every feature, every stroke,

In all your grace and movement!



You are eighteen… I'm feeling blue.

I'm happy, lonely, sad…

Your road ahead is calling you,

I stay behind - your dad.



But I believe, whereas you leave,

We always be best friends –

Until the Sun would stop to shine,

Until the World ends.