Warp Speed✨

Where did the giant gaps

in your tiny teeth go?

They’ve been replaced

by a smile

that could stop traffic.

Where did your pint-sized leggings

and munchkin giggles disappear to?

Now I just see sports bras

and mini skirts

strewn across your floor.

Handmade popsicle frames and handprint turkeys

Are nowhere to be found.

Just algebra homework and an ipad

Open to your latest essay on the constitutional congress.

Remember when I read to you each night?

Your head on my chest,

lost in the magic of the story I’d recite.

Today I find you buried under stacks

of young adult fantasy,

side-eyeing me

when I say lights out.

Five years from now,

what will I find?

Your middle school glasses

in your nightstand drawer,

a bookmark under your desk,

your tank top at the bottom of my laundry pile—

reminding me

your eyes are at my level now,

and your shoulders

stronger than mine.