Close Your Eyes

Close your eyes, dear girl, close your eyes.
There is wickedness. I don't deny it,
But close your eyes, you don't have to see it.
I know there is hurt and pain and sorrow.
But close your eyes. It'll be gone tomorrow.
Please, small one, don't look. Not now.
Close your eyes, my child. Don't think of it.
When the sun comes up, we'll be rid of it.
I'm here and I love you. Please think of that.
The Masked Ones won't hurt you.
The Light will find you.
Close your eyes, dear girl, don't forget
You are protected. Close your eyes.

Am I not strong enough to look?
Do you think me that weak?
Will you make me deny the hurt?
Is that what you seek?
I'll have to learn someday
What's out there, I know.
I won't close my eyes.
Just let me go!

Sweet child, if you see, you won't be the same.
You'll be scarred and bent.
You'll know the Masked Ones by name.

But others know, and they live, too.
They are fine with seeing.
And so are you.

Dear one, the others who have looked beyond,
Are different from you.
Their minds don't wander, as yours will.

I'll be ignorant, still?

The knowledge you are being deprived of
Is not worth knowing. It's the Light of
Day that you should know.
That will let you grow.

I'll trust your will.

I'm with you still.
See,  I'm painting the skies-

I'll close my eyes.

-just for you, and you'll see-

You have a plan for me.

-I love you.

And I, you.
 I'll close my eyes.