Lullaby
By Bert Meyers
1963,
Cuban missile crisis
Go to sleep my daughter
go to sleep my son
once this world was water
without anyone
Copyright Credit: Bert Meyers, "Lullaby" from In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: Collected Poems. Copyright © 2007 by Bert Meyers. Reprinted by permission of the literary estate of Bert Meyers
Source: In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: Collected Poems (University of New Mexico Press, 2007)