by Greg Du Pille

Created on: February 13, 2009

How fleeting the days
When you the mere child
still dazed, amazed,
By fatherly pranks, jokes and japes

Metamorphosis
from your young cocoon

You're 12, going on 20
I've lost you too soon

That puberty bus
hit you with a rush
Does oestrogen come with the cornflakes these days?

Little girl
Nowhere to be seen
Replaced with vampish, would-be beauty queen

Astride the Net you cruise these days
Breaking boys' hearts
in various ways that weren't even heard of
When we learned our stuff
And all we can do
Is cry out
"get off that damned Runescape...
you've had quite enough"

"... and I want my chair back!"

Futile I know, 'cos you've got to grow.

Shakira,
complex daughter,
You worry me so.

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