JENE’S GIRLS

Jene got three little girls

who look like their daddy

but God already took daddy

back to the lighthouse

so these three little girls

already know what it’s like

to capsize in the blue

out of the blue

found out mommy could

inflate

could become a raft

to get her girls back to shore

to safety

where she teaches them

that the water is

fickle

spastic

uncertain

and mommy as a raft

may not always have air

and even though daddy

is in that lighthouse

shining on

the three of them

Jene teaches

the three of them

to lock arms

tight

and forever

be each other’s

life guards