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Mother is this just a bad dream?

Mother is this just a bad dream?
I want to be a child again
Hold me to your bosom when I scream

Desire was never a lusty scheme
Climbing a dogwood cooled that burn
Mother is this just a bad dream?

Color was never a violent theme
Just a butterfly to stride beside
Hold me to your bosom when I scream

War could not have turned brother on brother
Only ocean tides bombed beaches
Mother is this just a bad dream?

Drugs are master to the craving fiends
Just bumble bees andflowers are dependent
Hold me to your bosom when I scream

I'm sinking in a polluted stream
The light is receding
Mother is this just a bad dream?
Hold me to your bosom when I scream

John Earle

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