Forgotten Lullaby

[HANNAH]
Old familiar aches and pains
Cuts and scrapes and souvenirs
Everybody has a few
Collected over days and years

All at once, a pain will come
Like some forgotten lullaby
The whisper from a childhood wound
When I first learned how not to cry

Tears won't make it go away
Years will pass and I'll remember

My life has been what it has been
No one needs to pity me
And if I fall and fall again
I don't want any sympathy

For good, for bad, forevermore
Someday I'll lay me down to sleep
And I will have just one regret
A secret I will always keep

And on that night the pain will come
Like some forgotten lullaby
That mothers sing to missing sons
When they've forgotten how to cry