(TW: violence, death, bereavement)
Lullaby
Soon the sun will rise again
Sings the mother in despair
To the son being slowly, brutally, executed.
A lullaby that once sang him to sleep
Now singing him away once more
Between hammered nails and silent tears.
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- E H Timms won the BBC Wildlife Young Poet of the Year award in 1992 and hasn't managed to stop writing since. She now lives in Wiltshire with a computer tethered to one elbow.
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