Our lovely daughter
16 today — yesterday
Seems so long ago
Yesterday she was
Just a little girl, precious
And so precocious
Yesterday she played
Without a care but to choose
Which crayon to use
Yesterday she drew
Pictures, some larger than life
As big as her dreams
Today she’s 16
Tasting, what? Love? Confusion?
She’s not telling me
Today she’s 16
On the threshold of it all
Perfect — Just ask her!
We love you, sweetie
Though now you’re so hard to hold
Harder to let go
“You have a nice voice”
Louis Simon told his boy
That was all it took
“How terribly strange
“To be 70,” Paul wrote.
Now he is, today
In between, he blessed
The world with so much music
The world loved him back
With childhood pal Art
He turned folk music into
Magical soundscapes
“El Condor Pasa”
So perfectly exotic
To this Kansan’s ears
And “For Emily”
I think there never will be
A more perfect song
“The Sound of Silence”
Was his first hit; I wonder
What will be his last
Perhaps his most played,
“Bridge Over Troubled Water,”
Still soothes many souls
Solo career soared
But it was more than just hits
Decades, deeply felt
Been around the world
To Graceland and back, Elvis
Without all the fuss
Such a good man, Paul
He’s shared so much of himself
His pop would be proud
