Little Neely's Dream Cat In the luscious summer garden Filled with trees and flowers Little Neely’s Dream Cat Played away the hours. A typical, fluffy, blue-grey cat So cherished as a pet; He caused no sign of trouble; Well none Neely knew of yet. But when Little Neely went to sleep His dreams the Dream Cat knew, And when Little Neely woke from bed His dreams became quite true. For in one corner of his room The Dream Cat made dreams real And whatever he had dreamed of He could smell, And touch, And feel. Neely would wake up really early His excitement far too great And he’d rush over to the corner For no longer could he wait. He’d had some quite incredible stuff Like edible clothes and hats And small banana aeroplanes Which when thrown would then come back. And plates and plates and plates of cake With jugs and jugs of cream, And a gang of dwarves to tidy his room, And make everything there clean. A trampoline shaped like a bed. A teddy bear six foot tall. A huge chest full of chocolates, And Little Neely ate them all. A clown to make him hoot and laugh, An incredible plastic nose. All this stuff, just for him When from bed he rose. These amazing gifts, however, As good as they might be, Vanished if by magic In the afternoon at three. Neely loved his Dream Cat gifts And loved the Dream Cat more; And these were Neely’s secret gifts Which his parents never saw. Then something awful happened. As bad as it can be. Little Neely had a nightmare Which came alive for him to see. A horrid little creature Appeared one frightful day. It smelt of pickled onion (yuck) So Little Neely ran away. When you have a scary dream That is bad enough, But when it’s real in daytime Then #life gets really tough. The creature was too ugly It made our Neely cry It messed about and broke his things And there seemed no reason why. This horrid little creature; This foul, disgusting pest Disappeared at 3pm; It disappeared like all the rest. At bed-time Neely was terribly scared And he refused go to sleep He’d try to stay awake all night, But in dreams he fell in deep. And no matter how hard he tried to think Of pleasant things in bed, He couldn’t remove the nasty thoughts That lurked within his head. He had these vicious nightmares For seven ghastly weeks At the end of which Neely thought: “A solutions what I seek”. He’d already seen four headless dogs And sharks upon the floor; Of ghosts there were aplenty And of goblins even more. All the things were evil; And all the things did bad; They made our Little Neely Turn really, rather mad. Now Neely loved his Dream Cat His very special friend But he had to be got rid of For the nightmare dreams to end. The next day he found a basket; He made it soft and cosy; And he laid the Dream Cat in it As the cat was getting dozy. He took the cat and basket, The cat sleeping, quite content, And he went into the garden shed To which no-one ever went. He placed the cat in a wooden crate Then Neely shut him in. He placed some bricks upon the lid And then began to grin. The dreams had made him evil; He was going to kill his friend, And the horrible dreams he’d dreamt so long Would now come to an end! He said “Goodbye” and began to leave But then he heard a noise; The Dream Cat was awake in there And was at best, annoyed. The Dream Cat roared in terrifying voice Which was full of rage and hate: “If you intend to leave me here That’s an unfortunate mistake. I’ll come back and haunt you Neely I’ll break you, you ghastly boy Everything you hold as truly dear I’ll gather and destroy”. Well, Neely slammed the shed’s huge door, He locked it very tight. He walked away with no regrets Knowing what he’d done was right. So Neely’s very happy now, The living nightmares are no more, But wait… Listen… Could it be… Skeleton Dream Cat at his door? Mi-OWWWW!