Mother don’t scream
I’ll hold you and touch you
As you sicken and dream
And as I move to clutch you
All you made
It shall fade
‘til we die!
Where I’m
Standing now
Holding your hand
How swollen you seem
As I play in the sand
In your eye
Which can not see
It’s dead save for me
But I will take it
With all that you own

But here is a flower now
I thought you needed it
It wither’s in your hand
And me to dumb to speak
Will say what he means to say
In the flush of tomorrow’s day
When the meaning of it fades away
And I cling in my mind to you!

Mother don’t cry
As you dream with a fire
Swallow your eye
And release you desire
Into my hand
I will stand
And take all
Your blows
Till the earth
Where you died
And growing the weeds
And planting the needs
I have lost
From when I was fetal and
Inside of you kicking like
A boxer in his prime
But I’ll be here with you
When you go
Deep into the fire of
The place that no one knows
But Dylan’s prophecy
Mean’s not a thing to me
You’re night will be quiet and
Soft with just your head and hand
To guide you through the tree which made
the cabin that will fade away

Mother you’re gone
And I sing out my sadness
Into the sun
Which smiles with gladness
And starts to pour
Out the door
All these flames
Which
Cold as rain
Fall on me!