The moon dressed in her nightly attire
Showing only a glimpse of her crescent shape
Heralds the nightly rest of sleeping mortals
Windows yellow darkens with curtain drape
Smoke thins from the chimney portals
As a lonely dog howls at the locked door
Midnight strikes silently as dreams begin
The cat purrs stretched out on the floor
Mother dreams of holiday isles
Punting Father dreams of another winner
The boy's toys dreamt, stretch for miles
Labrador whimpers for a never ending dinner
No way will the mouse dream to please
He creeps past the snoozing fat cat
To search and seize crumbs of cheese
The end of the chain knows where his dinner is at
Crawling in with knife and fork in hand
The co*kroach to the kitchen silent and fast
As sleepers dream, goes for dinner so grand
As night ticks on the morning wakes to the alarm clock blast
Dreams at end the family jump out of bed
Another day alive another night is dead