Peridots and Diamonds

April and Jubilee

I have two jewels in my house

I live with them every day

They are my two daughters

They are oil and water

Not cut from the same cloth

Striving to understand and embrace

Facing off with indignant difference

They are my treasures

Filling my house with music

Fragrance of homemade cookies

Jubilee and April

Watching them grow

Reaching out with grace

Toward trust and faith and the

Possibility of friendship

When they are gone

I will think of them often

With smiles of knowing