The Letters In My Name

Each year, the week before the start of my school term
mum and I would collect new books
Oh! how exciting it was returning home
getting ready for the ritual that would follow

Sitting on the floor strewn with books, brown paper,
scissors and glue, we would spend hours
covering and labeling books one after the other.
I would sit patiently for you to finish
and when you finally wrote my name on each book,
I would admire your meticulous hand letter by letter
For Daddy, my name looked best when you wrote it!