My Nightmare

I woke last night at half-past three

from such a strange nightmare,

of shopping at our local mall

in just my underwear!

Somehow, in this state of undress,

my wife I’d followed there.

She kept insisting it was time

to buy new underwear!

In panic, I searched wildly ’round,

as people stopped to stare;

I then looked down. Relieved, I found

I’d worn clean underwear!

Outside the lingerie store now,

a chill rose in the air;

the laughing crowds all pointed at

holes in my underwear!

The thing which brought anxiety,

(my wife seemed not to care),

was that there was no dressing room

to change my underwear!

Then worst of all, I felt a slap

upon my derriere;

my wife just winked and leered at me,

now, sans my underwear!

I woke next to my snoring wife--

sleeping without a care.

She must be dreaming of shopping...

but not in underwear!

(c) 2017 - dustygrein

** Note: This is a modified kyrielle, in iambic common meter. This meter is composed of a tetrameter line (4 iambs) followed by a trimeter line (3 iambs).