Sting

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Sting

Stinging nettles made me cry,

Then Mommy sang a lullaby

 To help me forget about the sting.

Oh how I loved to hear Mamma sing.

One summer day I stepped on a bee

And daddy lifted me to his knee.

He stroked my hair to ease the pain,

Then gave me a stick of sugar cane.

That sting went away and off I ran

To play with my friends, "catch me if you can".

A jelly fish stung me on the toe.

My boyfriend kissed away the woe.

And quickly I forgot the sting

When he gave me an engagement ring.

But oh, this sting, this awful sting!

Can't be sung or kissed away.

It came in the form of a telegram 

I got the other day.

Can there be a way to heal my heart?

Can they put my heart in traction?

For the words broke my heart, 

those stinging words...

"Your son was killed in action."