Danny - Nicole Dollanganger

Split his ribs open using my bare hands

But I could not repair all of the damage

Built of milk and flesh, so meek and mild

But I know if he’d lived, he’d have grown to be wild

They broke him and they beat him

And break he did

They took him from me, my baby

And break he did

His skin went white as chalk, his limbs turned soft and limp

I cradled him through those moments of weakness

And watched him drift between the worlds of living and dead

Until he sunk down into the pavement

They broke him and they beat him

And break he did

They took him from me, my baby

And break he did

And he laid there for days

In the cold and the wind

But I could not breathe life back in

I tried to fill up his lungs with the air from my own

But he did not wake up again

No, he didn’t

Split his ribs open using my bare hands

But I could not repair all of the damage