Sonnet 4 - To A Lucky Young Man

For Jennie, Christmas 2009
upon changing her Facebook status to "in a relationship"

The power of concentration that this girl
possesses is rare in her generation.
When she was young she’d get dressed up and twirl
in a swirling maelstrom of elation.

She gazed at Disney’s films at break of dawn,
then fell under the spell of Rowling’s school,
She’d sit and knit or braid hair later on,
enchanted by the chance to follow rules.

Sometimes her mood is nothing like the sun,
though frequently her motives are quite pure
and times she finds she isn’t having fun,
she looks within herself to find the cure.

Oh, what a lucky young man you are who
finds her affection focusing on you!