Up.
Down.
Left.
Right.
Cut across that place,
Fly through another.

Where am I going?
I don't even know…

A land, far from here.
Vast.
Beyond the beyond.
And yet…

It's right here.

Do you hear me?
I don't think you do.
I can't hear me.
How is that possible?
I'm right here,
In front of you.
Yet…

Do you see me?
I went up the chimney.
You used to always tell me not to play in there.
I slid down the stair rails.
You always fretted I'd break a bone.
Yet…

No reaction?
You always kept me in sight.
But I just left it.

Mother, why do you cry?
Did I do something wrong?
I didn't mean to, mother.
I tried to be a good boy.
But Johnny said he wouldn't be my friend
If I didn't go to paradise with him.
He's my only friend, mother.
I had to go with him.

We went to the cold place, mother.
The one with the cold iron bars,
And the hard stone walls.
The people there were mean, mother.
They told me and Johnny that they'd kill us for becoming like them.
Mother, I want to go home.
Please, mother.

Take me home.

Why is there smoke everywhere, mother?
Did you burn dinner again?
Gray swirls that suffocate me…
Was that a face?
Mother, what's going on?
Where's our home?

Home is gone.

A rubble of dust.
My memories…
All under the rubble.
The sad, wimpy rubble next to the proud,
Graceful church.
The ashes of my life,
Blown away to another land.

I didn't mean to leave you, mother.
I didn't mean to make you so sad.
But I just thought….
Didn't I make things better?
I thought you would be happy I was gone…

Mother, don't cry.
I'm still here.
I wrote you a song, mother.
A song about where I went.
Do you want to hear it?
You need to come with me if you do.
Mother, come with me.
Grow wings and fly up with me, mother.
We can be happy again.
We wouldn't need to look over our shoulders again.
We wouldn't need to fear what gang wants to kill us.
We can be with God, mother.
You want to see God?

Come with me.

Mother, please come with me.
I miss you, mother.
I'm scared here, in the dark.
Mother, where are you?
Where did you go?
Did you go to the place?
The bad place with the fire?
The one with the screams and punishment?
You didn't go there, did you?
You always said you never did anything wrong,
But you had always hurt me...

Mother?
Can you hear me?
I can hear you….
Please come home, mother.

I miss you.
Don't you miss me, too?