Lullaby - Kate Walsh

On candy-striped legs, the spider man comes

Softly through the shadow of the evening sun

Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead

Looking for a victim, shivering in bed

And searching out fear in the gathering gloom

When suddenly, a movement in the corner of the room

'There's nothing I can do,' I realize with a fright

'The spider man is having me for dinner tonight.'

Quietly he laughs, and shaking his head

Creeps closer now, and closer to the foot of the bed

And softer than shadow, and quicker than flies

His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes

«Be still, be calm, be quiet now, my precious boy

Don’t struggle like that, I will only love you more.»

And it’s much too late to get away, or turn on the light

The spider man is having you for dinner tonight

I feel like I’m being eaten by a thousand, million, shivering, furry holes

And I know that, in the morning, I will wake up in the shivering cold

The spider man is always hungry