“I wants ‘is ears Sid, and ‘is nose
I ‘ates the fingers, you ‘ave those
I wants ‘is eyes, you get the ‘ead
I takes ‘is arms an’ legs instead!”
Sleeping is quite hard to do
when voices speak of eating you
they’re waiting there, beneath the bed
I’m telling you, they want me dead!
But mother didn’t seem to care
insisting there was nothing there
and as she closed the bedroom door
the monsters started up once more
“Right you are Bert, you ‘ave that
we’ll crunch ‘is bones and chew ‘the fat
just wait ‘til ‘e gets outta bed
we’ll chomp ‘im, bite ‘im, ‘til e’s dead!”
MUUUUUUUUUUUUM!
she rushed right in, she looked annoyed
she muttered “such a silly boy
there’s nothing there, listen to me
I’ll look and show you, then you’ll see!”
but as she peered beneath the bed
those wicked monsters grabbed her head
she struggled free and said “it’s clear
you shouldn’t really sleep in here”
a pity that it took so long
for her to see that she was wrong!
Paul Hughes 2008
