I hear you getting up getting ready
For your first day back to school again
Remembering so many other first days
Precious moments for a parent
The girl who became the teen and the college student
Then the young woman herself a teacher
And now this thirty three year old heading off
Into your next work experience
Going to teach the teachers
How to make use of technology
What they need to know as teachers
In a rapidly changing world
I stay in bed quietly listening
Picturing you in the clothes you picked out
Letting you focus on your day ahead
But when you are about to leave I get up
Then I take my chance
For one last departure image
Catching another first day photo
Of my capable confident daughter
