GETTING INTO BED
There is something kind of special as you climb into bed,
Get comfortable and place the pillow right for your head.
Give a sigh of gratitude that you have somewhere to sleep,
Then hope that you stay until morning without making a peep.
Crisp clean sheets and a large comforter cosy and warm,
Keeping us from winters cold and feel free from harm,
As night covers out part of the world in her nightly shawl
And sweet thoughts and happy dreams come to us all.
The bed seems even better after a long hard days work,
When you have not had time to stop at all and shirk,
A soak in a bubbly tub and a nice warm milky drink,
Then the utter relaxing feeling as into bed you sink.
A gift to enjoy every night as off to bed we go
And the warm covers over us we gently throw,
Only after saying prayers of thanks you we lie
Ready for slumber to close our tired and weary eye.
Just stop and think tonight when you go off to bed
And place on the pillow your tired and weary head
Of all those who have nowhere to call home and rest,
Then realize just how much those with beds are blest.
(Millicent) Ann Margetson February 20, 2003