Did you ever wake up <br />(oh when you were very small) <br />in the dark black pitch of night <br />and find yourself <br /> <br />in your very own room <br />(in your very own bed) <br />although you had falled asleep <br />(in another room) <br /> <br />or the long journey home from the sea <br />side. <br />Did you ever wake up <br />(oh when you were very small) <br />and scared of shadows <br /> <br />and rubbed the broke sleep from your eyes <br />and wonder how (it came about) <br />you were ok and everything was <br />...alright? <br /> <br />And peering from your patchwork quilt <br />you heard your Dad asleep ('Hee Haw! ') <br />and heard your Mummy's gentle breathing. <br />And thought how Daddy was like the sea at her side <br />and she was the shore dreaming of seaweed and shells. <br /> <br />And still you didn't know how you had falled asleep in Aunt Mary's <br />and found yourself washed up on your own little island. <br />And the Mystery made you suspiciously sleepy <br />and you drifted back to how you wer <br /> <br />Superman and all <br />your other favourite comic book heroes! <br />Did you ever wake up(and find out) <br />how.. when... <br />the day's play had drugged you asleep <br />Daddy came and lifted you with his strong hands <br />(Yes...Superman dreams and all!) <br /> <br />and brought you home to your own room <br />sailing ship shape bed <br />and Mammy said: <br />'Shhhhh....don't wake him! ' <br />And Auntie Mary said: <br />'Ahhhhh...the poor little cratur'! ' <br /> <br />Did you ever wake up <br />(Oh when you were very small) <br />and catch <br />the Mystery <br />...out!<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mystery-4/
