Sonnet For Suzi Poem by Michael Maxwell Steer

‘Fabdaughter' was your choice of computer password:
and no phrase better captures my regard.
A constant inspiration, I feel empowered
by your creative aim to change the world.
Each first-born's given the power to create
unbound by precedent, but as you fashioned
your childish world I didn't anticipate
the themes which now have grown into your passion.

Perhaps we're all tormented by our dreams -
what we wish for, compared with what we seem:
But in that gap exists the energy
that draws us on from now to what we could be.
Looking back at whence you came I long to see
how far you'll go. Your destiny to outpace me.


On her marriage: : 07/07/2009