July 3rd

                                                                        

July 3^rd

By

Lisa A.Williams

Goodbye dad-

remembering this day

twenty-eight years now.

Granddaughters

you never got to see grow

into the beautiful women they have become.

I see traces of you

in their smiles,

in their humor

and fair skin-
 sun kisses, sometimes burns.

I miss you , always thinking of you

resting by the river

of your genesis.