Daddy can you see me
     Grasping tightly to your thumb
          With my tiny little hand?
                   Can you see my
                          Tiny eyes glancing up at you
                                                                      In wonder?


Daddy can you see me
        As I take a tiny step
             Slowly, one at a time?
                         Can you see me
                                Stumbling and falling but never
                                                                                Giving up?


Daddy can you see me
      Walking into that new building
                  With my head held high?
                           Can you see me
                                As I take another step closer to
                                                                                 Growing up?


Daddy can you see me
        As I take I buckle myself in
             Taking the next step into adulthood?
                        Can you see my
                                Nervous anticipation over the next step
                                                                                             Of become free?


Daddy can you see me
      As I stand there in cap and gown
           Preparing for the colossal change approaching?
                  Can you see me
                       As I walk across that stage, leaving behind
                                                                                          My childhood?


Daddy can you see me
      Even though you are so far away?
              Do you see me as I grow and change;
                        Become a young woman
                        Independent
                        And forever in the realization
                        That you have missed so much of me?
                                Daddy do you know
                                That you are forever in my heart;
                                A part of me that will never die?
                                        You may be absent from this earth
                                        But you will forever live on.
                                                 Daddy can't you see?

                                                  So much of you,
                                                               I find in me