Bridge or Abyss?

Reality - college begins tomorrow

The KHT anticipates that her translation to 'virtual reality' 

will mean that this no longer has any relevance for her.

And all I can do is watch on, 

helplessly, 

and pray.

Pray for her safety and protection.

Pray that she won't get hurt.

Pray that she will arrive safely.

Pray that I have the strength not to intervene, 

but to trust,

and for that trust not to be misplaced,

or naive.

I know that if I do intervene, 

this day will still come,

for there will still be a day when I have to let go.

Parenting does not get any easier, 

especially when your child has no sense of their own vulnerability.

So I stand on the edge of an abyss of unknowing,

There are no words I can say that will broker a solution,

for the language I speak is not one she wants to hear.

I am irrelevent.

Only a divine solution will satisfy,

and I am a mere mortal,

and what do I know...