Lullaby Songtext
von Anne Sexton

Lullaby


It is a summer evening, the yellow moths sag
Against the locked screens, and the faded curtains
Suck over the window sills, and from another
Building a goat calls in his dreams
This is the T.V. parlor in the best ward
At Bedlam, the night nurse is passing out
The evening pills, she walks on two erasers
Padding by us one by one

My sleeping pill is white, it is a splendid pearl
It floats me out of myself, my stung skin
As alien as a loose bolt of cloth
I will ignore the bed, I am linen on a shelf
Let the others moan in secret, let each
Lost butterfly go home, old woolen head
Take me like a yellow moth while the goat calls

Hush-a-bye