Eternal Bedtime

With trembling hands, she laid me down

The way she would even though I’d frown

As a child, I had never been excited

To go to bed when instructed

She folds the sheet over me now

Without the lullaby but with a vow

"Soon you'll see eternal peace"

She speaks as though to cease

The pain of having done wrong

To feel the pleasure that comes after waiting so long

The twilight shines on her face

All signs of my mother, vanished without a trace

As the poison floods my whole inside

For once, I wish she had not tried