When you lie in your bed at night
Trying to fall asleep
After you say your prayers asking
The Lord your soul to keep

Do you hear footsteps in the hall
Outside your bedroom door
Did something seem to run across
Your toys left on the floor

What was that sound that you just heard
From right across the room
It's in the closet but you can't
See through the dim lit gloom

You want to get up from your bed
Turn on the light to see
But you are frozen from the fright
Of just what it might be

You pull the covers o'er your head
But still you take a peek
You hear the doorknob move as you
Hear floor boards start to creak

Slowly your door opens and then
A figure does appear
Relieved you hear your mother's voice
Are you O.K. my dear


Jane Noponen Perinacci