Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CALLING ME, by RUBY ALORA PEAPLON


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CALLING ME, by                    
First Line: Mama, dear, I'm going to leave you
Last Line: Kiss me as I fall asleep.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


Mama, dear, I'm going to leave you,
Going to see my brother Roy;
I'm not leaving you all alone
For you still have my daddy boy.

Days have been long and nights so dreary
And for pain I could not sleep;
Mama, when I'm gone to heaven
Promise me that you'll not weep;

Give away my books and playthings,
I will never want them more;
I'm going to that place called heaven
Over on the other shore.

Now I'm going to that place called heaven,
Mama, mama, do not weep;
Heaven is such a pretty place,
Kiss me as I fall asleep.





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