Ms Dolittle was giving her cuppa a sip Her beady eyes drowned in deep brood Last night she didn’t get enough sleep The morning found her in a grumpy mood.
She had never seen them in all her years Though read or heard about sightings Dismissed them as mere conjectures The believers’ flight on fantasy wings!
It might be the moonlight playing mischief with her The moon can fool with such eerie nightly designs Or maybe had a peg too many she couldn’t remember She wasn’t unaccustomed to swigs of grapevines.
Whatever, she saw it clear not imagined in her head The silhouette of her husband on the curtained window Something she wouldn’t wish away as merely moon-made He stood there upright waving to her in the moon’s glow.
Ms Dolittle brave as she is didn’t swoon or pass out Just lay there motionless without rising to the summon It was her husband about that she had no doubt For in a troubled voice it said, ‘Come on’.
So there he was troubled for not having her company And it was precisely what was worrying her She had no idea with him how she could be