Katelyn's Song

by your mother, Katherine L. Harris-Szerdy

I heard you say to your Daddy today

On this, your 21^st birthday

That there’s no song written in honor of your name

No sweet romantic love song

Begging you please to come home

Or claiming to whom you belong

Woodwinds tugging at heart strings,

Offering promises and diamond rings,

that you can claim for that pretty name

Daddy and I chose 21 years ago today.

for our cherub-faced baby girl

with satin bows tying back wispy blonde curls.

I checked for titles with girls’ names

On a song lyric dot-com.  You were right--

—no “Katelyn’s Song” has been written.

Of the hundreds of girls’ names, not one is in sight.

The Police wrote a ballad for Roxanne

“Jennifer Juniper,” sang one-hit Donovan

“Susan van Heusen” by Gilbert O’Sullivan

“Mustang Sally” by Eric Clapton

Simon & Garfunkle wrote “Cecilia”

The Beatles penned “Lucille” and “Michelle.”

“Penny Lane” and “Eleanor Rigby”

The Stones rocked for “Ruby Tuesday”

Rod Stewart wrote “Amanda” and “Maggie May”

And swooned for a girl named “Angie.”

Manilow composed one for “Mandy.”

The Monkeys made it big with “Valerie”

Eminem composed one for “Zoe”

Songs for girls’ names from A to Z—

But no one has written Katelyn’s song

Until now.  On your special Birthday

Your twenty-first, now  you can no longer say

That no one has written a song for your name.

Someone who loves you wrote one just for you!

It may not make the Billboard Charts

Or win a Grammy, but at least this one’s a start—

A song written from a mother’s heart

With all the love a lyric can hold.

For her little girl whose all grown up

A beautiful young woman now--take a look and behold

A song for Katelyn, her own “Katelyn’s Song.”

Copyright 2011