Daddy's Double

Here's simple poem for the Hub's 33rd birthday. Since I wrote one for him as a "gift" when he first became a daddy during his 30th birthday, thought it's befitting that he gets another one when he became a father a second time round.

This is kinda unfair though: how come no-one ever writes anything for me?

Daddy's Double

Mirror mirror on the wall

Don’t I look like daddy at all?

I’m the Princess Um-boo-boo
Here’s something I wanna share with you
No one can deny

No matter how hard they try

I’m a splitting image of Daddy

The resemblance is really uncanny

The shape of my oval face

Same puffy cheeks in place

Right to ‘em single-lid eyes

So it’s hardly any surprise
That everyone I meet

Even strangers walking the down street

Say I look so much like him

And that fills his heart to the brim

I’m sure he’s as proud as a peacock

That his second girl’s a chip off the old block

(And here’s a secret I can’t keep
I snore like Daddy too when I’m asleep!)
Many think I’m a baby boy

Maybe I should act a dash more coy?
We don’t need a DNA test
We’ll win any Parent-Child look-alike contest
Mirrors don’t ever lie, no-sir-ree
I’m sure glad I got Daddy’s genes in me
Others say my looks may change with time

But I’ll bet my very last dime
I’ll always look like Wing Sum

The Daddy of Sook Mun the Grumble Bum

~ Baby Sook Mun ~

Teo Yuan Ching
25 March 2006

Copyright © 2006 Teo Yuan Ching