Ben-jah

Where else dare I sleep
Mum died and daddy too
They blew up our home
Why?
I have no clue

Where I can go
What’s to become of me
All I ever loved is gone
As you all can see
There is no other place
That I would rather be

I have to say
Perhaps with my dear mother
Who will sleep my life away

She was always very good to me
She loved me and I know
That I can’t stay here for ever
But I have no place to go

At first I couldn’t sleep at all
And now at least I can
I feel my mother is close by
And as a little man

Here between my parents
It’s the best place I can be
All the while the weather holds
I think it’s best for me

And sometimes when I am sleeping
I hear my mother say
How sad she had to close her eyes
And not see me that day

And so I tell her in my sleep
That I will always be
Beside her and will never forget
What she did for me