Cake Thief

Hide the butter, hide the batter

Cloak the muffins with a towel!

Can’t you hear her hooves a-clacking?

Cake Princess is on the prowl!

With her nose a-sniffly snuffling

For a sweet or two to try

For a cupcake, sponge or gateau

French fancy or apple pie

She will eat it, guarantee it,

Scarf it down in one great gulp!

Icing mustache, crumbs aplenty

Rounded off through belching burp!

When the kitchen’s finally empty

She will swagger out the door

Only to return tomorrow

And again, clean out my store

Author's Note

Poem by Aquillo