A Lullaby of Death

Sleepy little baby
	Lying in your crib
	Sighing in your crib
	Dying in your crib.

Sickly little sweetheart
	Sinking from my sight
	Fevered in the night
	Dreaming of the light.

Dying little dear one
	Face is hot and red
	Sweating in your bed
	Crying until dead.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Ashley Avatar
April 17, 2018 at 10:06 PM
Wow! Spectacular gloom and doom, Jessica. A tragic and eerie lullaby so beautifully expressed! Warmest wishes.. ~Susan
Ellison Avatar
April 16, 2018 at 7:14 PM
Was this for real??? Holy crap scared the poop of me!!!
Salmonson Avatar
April 17, 2018 at 1:50 PM
Though I post mainly comedic poems at Poetry Soup, my real deal is horror and fantasy and gloom -- those poems get published mainly in small magazines but a couple of 'em have been in Best Of Year anthologies. And they get collected into chapbooks, while Hippocampus Press is planning a big trade paperback of them.
Krutsinger Avatar
April 5, 2018 at 1:24 AM
This one is a WOW for me. I love it!
Salmonson Avatar
April 6, 2018 at 7:29 PM
The kind of lullaby that really exist yet seem not to scare the babies they're sung to by sweet mothers' voices, but perhaps helps explain how many of us grow up to be horror fans.
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