"Love and Forgiveness"

Red and blue dots on a dainty dress;
eyes a hue of blue from the candles,
flickering on her birthday cake;
laughing loudly! "Daddy I did it
in one breath, the right way
to blow out the candles."

The sad memories
of yesterday;
my child
the teenager,
wanting to be alone;
running away from me,
where I lost her that day.

Eighteen months later, in the mail;
a letter scribbled in ink, mixed with tears,
splashed dry on the page, begging me!
“Dad, will you come and save me?
I have no food for my baby
in this lonely room.
A door to hell,
in New Jersey.”

I fell to my knees
begging for God’s mercy!
"Help me find her and the baby;
with candles on a cake that I baked,
to blow away their tears and fears of failure?
A new life waiting, with tender words to forgive her."