NOW I UNDERSTAND

Dad, me, you just don’t try to understand

Desperate my daughter, as the situation, I try to understand

Against me in my way, why I find you, I don’t understand

World’s ways at least now, you need to understand

Those little frowns and smiles, I could understand

Without words, your needs I could always understand

Fleeting time I feel, I failed to understand

My little girl, a charming lady, I didn’t understand

Your little eyes, once I could always read and understand

Angels and demons, your dreams, then I could understand

Clinging to my chest, your sleep I could easily understand

Your need to be cuddled, by looks I could then understand

You were trying to walk, I could easily understand

Why I had to hold you always, never fully I could understand

You were just teething, from books I could understand

Why night long your mom and I cried, I still don’t understand

It was just a passing fever, from the doc, I could understand

Why your mom and I couldn’t sleep, I still don’t understand

You, with your friends were out just to play, I could understand

Your absence short, why our concern grave, I still don’t understand

You, our dream come true, I do understand

Why you cloud all our thoughts, I don’t understand

Why we interfere so much, I don’t understand

May be, it’s our love that you don’t understand

Your curls and perms, in my own way I do understand

Your slang and tastes, though weird I do understand

Your distance from me, now I don’t understand

Your silence, once crystal clear, now I just don’t understand

Clinging to me you always stood, why, I then could understand

Holding you, my swelling pride I then could understand

Why you hold your friends so dear, now I don’t understand

May be, it’s the generation gap that I fail to understand

Once my parents, me, I felt never did understand

My needs and deeds, they just couldn’t understand

Their reasons and logic, I just couldn’t understand

Ways of the world, I felt, they just couldn’t understand

For once, my girl, now I truly understand

Them and their love, now I truly understand

Thanks to my daughter, now I truly understand

Life’s cycle, my girl, now I truly understand