Animals Although I am sleeping Or maybe I am dreaming They touch me with their fingers And their odour lingers Sometime for hours Through heavy showers And they stay till morning Till its light and there’s sunshine They come as I get warmer And dance across my pillow They go in spiral whispers They are perfect listeners I tell them all my secrets They feed me tea and biscuits It’s a final union like the first day of creation I gave my soul to someone They told me they would keep it And when I was finished I’d know just where to find it But they were lying Because my eyes were open And I have spoken