The monster under my bed

 

Dad please leave the light on tonight

It’ll stop me having such a fright

But why he says and scratches his head

Because of the monster under my bed!

 

He laughs and bends to take a peep

There’s nothing there now go to sleep

But he can’t see it though he tries

His vision clouded by grown-up eyes

 

It spends the day beneath the stair

My parents completely unaware

And when I head up the wooden hill

I know it hears me through the still

 

Toothbrush in hand I hear the claws

Of those scary monster paws

That terrible pattering sound of doom

As it sneaks into my room

 

So only the glow from my bedside light

Can keep me safe from that monster tonight

I leap onto my bed with a stifled yawn

And keep my feet off the floor ‘til dawn.