Mehreen Mujeeb - Lullaby

He sleeps
Never wakes up
His closed eyes are carved.

He dreams
Never wakes up
His eyes
His blanket
Wet.

His smile only remembers to frown
In his shivering sweat he drowns.

His blanket chains him
His feet shackled
His body paralysed
He cannot know
But cannot not feel.

From his sleep
He cannot wake
He doesn’t know how
He doesn’t know why.

Mehreen Mujeeb

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