Hush, hush, sweet baby boy,
not a word must you utter.
Shut your eyes against the night,
without you the night would be much better.
You diminish me, sweet child, bit by bit;
fragments of a broken puzzle
that never seem to fit.
Keep quiet, my love
and don’t say a word.
Hush, hush, sweet baby;
you don’t want to be heard.
A creature of silence and sometimes of sound;
if not for you, sweet baby,
I wouldn’t stay around.
Hush, hush, sweet baby boy,
not a sound must you utter.
If you were dead right now,
my life would be much better.
Mother tomorrow and mother today.
Hush, hush, sweet baby
and please go away.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem