Silent Night

Everyone is fast asleep; the house is still... The clock ticks relentlessly, deafeningly loud The dishwasher gurgles, gurgles, and gurgles and There's the buzz of a fluorescent light, of a thousand bees The heat goes on; it scratches its ways through the vents A radio's on somewhere, the news forever stuck in spin cycle OMG! WHAT was THAT? Oh, it was only the phone rang... It frightened me so.