Interlude: Dad to daughter; We Say Yes

My daughter is up and dancing
Feeling the pull of the tide
Whirling out onto the dance floor
Caught up in this wild ride

She wiggles and she sizzles
In a hair tossed twirl of delight
She is her own mega watt beacon
Tearing up the darkness into light

Just like a woman electric
Here nobody feels any pain
All the joy of all the music
All the wonder of a bloodstain

We say yes
All day it threatened to rain
And my tongue stayed stuck
You painted hope while you were underground

You painted a latter
I wrote down secrets
I imagine them feeling my aches
It is so much to want something only for yourself

Tell them why I have been hiding for 4 years
Soon it will be just me and my longing again
I will remember whose child I really am
And what I am sovereign to
It will be time to begin
And I will be free

Nature bestows on us all
A master internal clock
A sleek and slippery timepiece
With no way to make it stop

Fundamental to a woman's life
The convergence of music and blood
And here it all came together
In a fantastical flash flood