Tuck it in - Language Arts

This theme is narrative

The story can’t quite deliver

Something to bury it

Stuck in me like a sliver

So small but so deep

She can’t quite deal with the heap

Of the nonsense filling her head

It seems like only last week

Was the flower in her tummy

It grew

Not fully maternal but to her

It’s no longer personal

Tuck tuck tuck it in

It will be OK after the lullaby

Fluff the pillow

Get comfy for the rest of it

The rest you’ll have tonight

Let’s sing about the things that we see when we sleep and how they feel real

I had a dream

That my mother died

We all cried

As we sat inside

Among all of her old things

Ring Ring

We heard the phone ring

On the other end

My Grandmother spoke

Told us not to fear

Because it wasn’t a joke

We all started wondering

If we were on the phone speaking to her ghost

She used to be really funny

She said

I’ll take care of your mommy

I was a baby again

Lost in play-land

Memories of my sister in her tummy

My dad fell to the floor

I couldn’t cry anymore

We all got up

And kicked down the door

My sisters and I

Ran through to outside

Dad led us to the pool

To make it our tide

And we flooded the backyard as our reply

And the water splashed

And killed the plants

And the mud flats grew

Over the grass

And we flipped the pool

Upside down to float on past

Let’s sing about the things that we see when we

Let’s sing about the things that we see