Did you know that you encouraged me,
believed in me yet sent me on my way?
Never that simple but I did accept
that for you it was just fair play.
If not for you, I would never have dared
nor so eagerly turned my head.
You will never know how delicious
my life seemed yesterday instead.
When all is said and accounted for
you will know that my thoughts of you
inspired by you, were always there
for discovery of all that I knew.
Yet now the screen lays dry of all things past.
And I will never know how far behind
I was in this determination of such.
For me you were the inspiration mind.
The inspiration of mind no longer blind
yet creativity continues to this day.
And because of you please know it now
your encouragement was for me the way.
© Deirdre Moignard Miller
