A Baby And A Mirror Poem by Pen Anthony

My wife left the wardrobe door open
Tap! tap! tap! I hear her tappy shoes
As she walks into the bedroom
The tapping stops
It's replaced by a deafening scream

No gunshot sound
Could make me get out of bed faster
Than that cry did
She points at the wardrobe
I look but everything is in place.

Now in my hands
Her mother comes running
She's panicking
I point to the wardrobe
She asks what

She closes the wardrobe door
Nothing is still out of place
But she's stopped crying
I have her in my arms
I'm thinking maybe she saw something

In the wardrobe
I put her down
As soon as i open the wardrobe door
She screams running to her mother
Now i'm laughing

She's crying
Telling her mother
' toto, toto, toto '
Now she knows why too
She laughs at the baby

Bringing her closer to the mirror
Her crying is now more pronounced
She notices the baby is crying too
She stops briefly, the baby stops too
This goes on until the smell of burning food in the kitchen
Spoils the show.