I grabbed my daughter’s favourite book
A book about dinosaurs
She holds it every night to sleep
A book she just adores
As I flipped the very first page
Guess what did I see
The beasts therein all came to life
And jumped on top of me
They looked at me with giant eyes
I looked back with fear
I yelled and screamed like a little girl
As my demise grew near
Hearing me my girl came running
Grabbed the book from me
Instructed the giant dinosaurs
— Let the old man be
They all paid obeisance to her
Ere retreating in the book
I got myself up from the floor
With a pitiful look
Like nothing had ever happened
My daughter jumped on the bed
Fell to sleep holding that eerie book
Left me scratching my head
Frank Solanki 