Nightmare

Quietly

whisper.

Don’t make a sound.

I am whispering

Whispering in your ear

Quiet, little one

Slowly turn your head

There is nothing more to fear there

Or the other side of your bed

Quiet, sweet one

Close your dainty eyes

Let the darkness swallow

Every droplet of your cries

Quiet, good one

And hold your little tongue

Pull the leash on your escaping words

Smother them to an echo – a bell never rung

(Last stanza to be sung in the melody of ‘Hush Little Baby, Don’t You Cry’)

Hush, little baby, don’t you cry

Twinkle, twinkle little wry

How I wonder what your eyes

Will see when the candle forever dies