Homework

I'll do my homework tomorrow,

I'll complete it in a flash!

I'm going swimming now,

Ma, you should see my splash!

That night when I was sleeping,

I saw a shadow loom;

It towered tall before me,

in a corner of my room.

And so I made a dash for it,

and raced right up the stairs;

Jumping over footstools,

and toppling over chairs!

What utter pandemonium!

What terror and pure fight!

As that awful shadow chased me,

in the darkness of the night.

"I am your undone homework!"

It shouted in a shriek;

"You should've had me done,

at least before last week!"

It chased me around the garden,

through a misty, grey, wet fog;

That nasty, horrid homework,

It went and ate my dog!

I bounded right out of my bed,

and did my homework well that day;

And now I do my homework,

before it's time to play!