She is a lovely girl turned woman 
Beautiful inside and curved outside 
Like the hood ornament on a 1953 Buick 
She loves to give chocolates and flowers 
To perspective lovers and their mothers 
She buys cards for orphans and the elderly 
Visits the hospitals and nursing homes 
Still she sits alone most every night for dinner 
In a candlelit room with a sad song playing 
On the stereo as she sips her wine 
And wonders when she'll find her one true lover 
She is kind to a fault with perfect smiles so bright 
Yet she spends too much time crying in her sleep 
She is a lovely girl turned woman 
In search of her perfect man 
Now that her Daddy is dead.....
Ted Sheridan
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-requires-some-lower-expectations/