Facing The Beast

I am the hero of the house

A mighty lion, not a mouse

Because I saved my girls and wife

From a fate that’s fraught with strife

Specifically, an evil thing

That lived to screech and wail and sing

This vile creature got inside

Our home, upstairs, it tried to hide

So I went up to face the beast

Nervous? Yes, to say the least

I heard it screaming out its call

All the way from down the hall

I trailed it by its song of wrath

Right into the Master Bath

I closed the door, we’re both locked in

One must lose while one will win

I yanked aside the shower door

And faced the thing I’d come there for

It stared at me, a fearsome sight

Too many legs and black as night

I grappled it, quick as a wink

Before it had a chance to think

And then I wrestled it downstairs

Protecting home and wife and heirs

Out of the house, into the night

In all, a truly epic fight

I left it there, my task completed

I, the victor, him, defeated

And that’s how I became the hero

Daddy - one, the cricket - zero