My latest 4am poem titled “Daddy’s Asleep” I love your daddy, I really do, After all, without daddy, I wouldn’t have... Posted by Caroline Olling Andersen on Friday, February 1, 2019

Since having kids, I've tried to enforce a rule to never get mad at my husband while he's unconscious. I'd be up in the middle of the night nursing a baby, and he'd be sound asleep. I'd be up changing a dirty diaper, and he'd be snoring blissfully. I'd be coaxing a fussy toddler back to bed, and my husband? Yep, he'd be deep in dreamland. It drove me insane to see how he could carry on with his REM cycle while two kids were shrieking, but I did my best not to add my own shrieking to the mix. It'd take every ounce of depleted energy I had to keep from pushing him off the bed entirely.

With that in mind, I don't know where this mom got the creative fuel — never mind the emotional restraint — to pen a poem about her sleeping husband instead of screaming obscenities at him.

Caroline Olling Andersen — who just started a Mommy Poet Facebook page — lives in Dubai with her 2-month-old baby and her husband, and at roughly 4 a.m. one night, she penned a whopping seven-stanza poem titled "Daddy's Asleep." Although it was written to her daughter, it was clearly meant to be read by her partner — you know, the guy who "farts, rolls over, and continues to snore" as your poor mother "mops vomit off the floor."

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Behold, one of the greatest poems a tired mom could ever read. Be sure to share with your well-slept partners!