When will sleep subdue this noisy cub?
It’s 10 p.m., but still she wants to take
her seventy-one-piece tea set in the tub.
This is what she wants, and here’s the rub:
Until she’s all played out she’ll stay awake.
Oh when will sleep subdue this noisy cub?
She’ll scream if I (before that final glub
of water down the drain) should undertake
to lift her precious tea set from the tub.
She’s belting out a tuneless rub-a-dub–
the tiles echo till my eardrums ache.
Oh when will sleep subdue this noisy cub?
I might assuage my dolor at the pub,
but cannot here shake off the urge to break
her seventy-one-piece tea set in the tub.
She’s out now, but she cries for frosted flakes.
The bathroom floor’s an unnamed little lake.
Oh when will sleep subdue this noisy cub?
I fish her floating tea things from the tub.
Tim J. Myers is the author of Glad to Be Dad: A Call to Fatherhood, published by Familius
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