For My Daughter

Maggie Devers

Chop off my head and put it on your shield.

I will protect you until the day I die

And all the days after that.

You think I would let anything harm the perfection that sprang from my body?

That force that is me and infinitely you at the same time?

There is nothing in the world that could destroy us,

Not when a mere glance can turn men to stone.