Boys

I awake in dreams
Slight fingers cling and wring
When I go, you’ll go with me
To mother tease
With those eyes aloft in frieze
When I go
Those boys got big
Once soiled, you’re twice the prig
Oh but they don’t
My bloodless queen
Cold rivers wash you clean
Until they don’t
Crank the clock that counts
But my pearl, don’t count me out
When I go, you’ll know
Trust me
How mother sees
With those eyes aloft in frieze
I don’t know