Bright One

There beyond the treeline Where water meets sky Eyes bright as embers Dimples deep as rivers Flowing from Ungava All through the tundra See her fingers strumming Hear her voice singing Songs warm as bannock Laughter sweet as tea In the land of the midnight sun She was a bright one Always gathering the Children, shinin' Our love for her Rushes like water Going on forever No dam can stop it Wildly blowing Fiercely glowing That night we lost her To a wooden rifle Some threshold for sorrow Forever broken In the land of the midnight sun She was a bright one Always gathering the Children... Let us not forget her And every other Who ever has been taken By a quiet violence A violence growin' slowly A violence that is swimming Deep beneath the watery Surfaces of smiles Might we hear it treading Or might we glimpse it shimmering Let us hunt together Or cast it to the wind You in the water You in the river You in the music We sing with you forever