I awoke to an urgent sound
So tense and full of tilt and tumble
As if a car nearby just couldn't stop rolling
After removing itself from the road
It was encased within my own four walls
In the room just to my left
And I couldn't rise because my fear
Was of something truly beyond reason
But then I heard the muffled cries
Of something nocturnal and small
Suddenly it all made sense
And then I went back to bed.