Baba

Daughter

I love you like my heart beats every tick of the second that splits time
Though I ain't no Einstein scientist
Nor Oppenheimer's conscience nor luminary theorist
But no atom, neutron, hydrogen bomb
Could compare with the emotion when I go off
So you know e=m(c-squared) is the speed of light just jammin
Multiplied by the mass that energy, spirit, soul, elan become more but leave us less than
But you
You seek to transcend them
You want to make people real
Like there were something worthy about us
Like there were something redemptive, if only in body
That the eye can't look at and pretend blind
And shutter away to some more convenient life
That I lie in my bed at night
Thinking about courage
And the miracles other people find
In your determination, your fear, your loneliness,
Your light like some star in the forever sky
Cause I love you like my heart beats
Each tick of the second that splits time

I love you babe, dad