I'm Tired - Michael Rosen

Poem Title : I'm tired
Author : Michael Rosen
Source :  Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things' (Puffin Books)

I'm tired.

Dad says, "Phooo... I'm tired..."

And mom says, "You're tired? I'm tired?"

Dad says, "I've never ever been as tired as this."

Her mum says, "You don't know what tired is? I'll tell you what tired is! It's me! That's what tired is!"

And dad says, "I'm tired all over. It's my legs, It's my head."

And mum says, "My tired, isn't just inside. Everywhere is tired!"

Dad says, "I haven't even begun to tell you... how tired I am."

And mum says, "I know how tired you are. You've told me! You know something? You telling me you're tired, makes me tired!"

Dad says "And that's it."

No one understands how tired I am! No one listens! In the end, I get tired saying I'm tired.

Her mum says, "What you don't know is that before I was this tired, I didn't know a person could be this tired. If I had known then... how tired I was going to be, I wouldn't have let myself, be this tired."

And I say, "Anyone round here tired?"