I Can’t Be A Single Parent

My poems are my teenage daughters

Refusing to wear anything

But your smile

All day and night

You are their only fashion icon

They follow you like mad paparazzi

Yearning to know the most intimate secrets

You hide behind your beautiful face

And your mundane routines of day and night

You’re the only diva

They imitate blindly

Like religious fanatics

They all are foolishly stubborn like you

I can’t be a single parent to them all

Will you join me?

We’ll bring them up all together

Under the kind shade of your bewitching smile