Happy??Halloween

Pumpkin lanterns shed their light

Among the copper leaves,

And spooky spiders hang from boughs

Cavorting in the breeze.

Tonight the hounds of hell are loose

While witches o’er their potions croon.

Black bats fly high – their shadows pass

Before the blood red moon.

Lupine howls pervade the night

A sound to chill the bone.

The legend of the werewolf curse

Has through the centuries grown.

Vampires in their swirling capes

Are lurking everywhere,

While zombies with their stumbling gait

Transfix us with their stare.

Skeletons shake their hollow ribs

In a grotesque dance

Their grinning mouths and hollow eyes

Dare us to advance …..

Towards the graveyard from wherein

Pale ghostly forms arise

From their dank and crumbling tombs

With hoarse, spine-chilling cries.

But never fear – it’s just a prank -

The children having fun,

As dressed up in their ghoulish gear

From house to house they run.

But yet I feel a dreadful chill

And goosebumps up my back,

As glancing round I thought I saw

A silhouette in black …

That seemed to pass straight through the wall

Behind the local morgue,

It’s coming straight toward me

It beckons – help me Lord!!

I turn to flee but cannot move

I feel I’m being hexed.

The creature whispers in my ear

“You can’t escape – you’re next.”

Fingers – bony, blanched and cold

Hold me in their grasp,

And drag me to an open grave

This poem will be my last.

AMEN