Cradle my head just right
Make shapes by the bedroom light
Be patient and well tonight
Take care that my health’s alright
Tuck in my teddy tight
And dust where the bed bugs bite
Please say one last precious rhyme
And waken me when its time
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Sketch lines I’ll fill with joy
Tell me I’m your little boy
Protect me from hurtful words
And shelter me from the world
Soothe me til I’m at ease
Good roots build the highest trees
With you here I’ll never fear
We’ll shoot beasts with silver beads
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Mend this gown with broken scissors
Upend my frown with smoke and mirrors
I tend the mound where hope still withers
I fed the hound my only slivers
By roots I’m bound in earth malicious
The wolf now growls at any issues
He chews on doubt, finds stress delicious
And looks around with tense suspicions
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Place gratitude in my hand
And my heart will understand
We’ll pray for that second chance
Create a new circumstance
We’ll paper the cracks and scuffs
And tape up the damaged stuff
We’ll shake out the tarnished rugs
Replace all the shattered bulbs
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Send the clown back when I falter
And let me down with threads I altered
I pencilled out what pen had ordered
So when I drown drop cents in water
My heart stopped cold to kill what’s rotten
I glanced below at things forgotten
A cache of gold that sinks to bottom
My hands let go and swim the torrent
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