A Halloween Story

One dark and dreary night many, many moons ago myself and a friend coming home from the local disco no names mentioned smiling . . . and in the far distance we could see and hear three girls laughing and giggling and having fun This was Halloween Night or All Hallows' Eve . . . and so we climbed up the nearest evergreen barely breathing, holding our breaths . . . so they would not hear us and sense our presence the one directly in the middle as they neared us in passing a quick clip at the back of the head said do you want to hear the screams roaring out of them away hammer and tongs up the road We could hear them shouting and carrying on . . . I'm sure that place is haunted to this day they tell their story claiming it to be real well better still was to come for both of us laughing our hearts out giggling like madmen I felt like a gruesome hand of ice just touched me . . . the tremors ran down my spine jolting me in a most terrible way almost felt like a gripping sensation on my shoulder almost falling of the tree with a roar My good friend starting screaming making it worse . . . saying somebody must of touched us the same time we looked at each other and made a race to get home just got really spooked and ran the whole 3 miles home in a record time ever saying my holy prayers every stroll of the way . . . a most hideous and macabre thought -- a ghost touched me as the cold ran right through me chilling me to the bone never was I as glad to see holy water in the house I bless myself for being lucky never ever have I pulled such a prank from that night to this . . . It backfired on us so we chose never to say a word about it ever again!! And now we can only say: BOO!! BOO!! BOO!! And Happy Halloween!! Liam McDaid and Gary Bateman, Free Verse Collaboration (October 13, 2014)