Halloween Night
It’s late this night of Halloween
I’m lost and quite alone
Walking down an empty street
To find my way back home
Along this darkened shadowed path
A church in silence sits
So many days recall its past
I’m scared out of my wits
Flaking paint and rusted hinge
A sign that reads “Keep Out”
An iron gate that stands ajar
As spider webs do sprout
Its steeple points towards the night
While clouds now slowly flow
The moon is full and eerie bright
A howling wind does blow
Tombstones wait beyond the fence
Unearthly silhouettes
Chiseled dates of someone’s death
Lost souls of sad regrets
A faster pace my feet they move
Till something that I spy
Brings a fear into my heart
Caught within my eye
A tiny light does flicker so
Behind the stained glass pane
I try to look away but can’t
Oh, there it goes again
Now this is dumb, I know it’s true
But I can not resist
I sneak up to the broken glass
To see what does exist
I press my face against so tight
Horrific was the scene
Startled so I could not stop
And I let out a scream
The shadow in the window jumped
It knows just what I saw
The front door creaks its opening
An eerie shriek does call
I run so fast my heart it thumps
As I can hardly breathe
I feel a hand, the footsteps thud
It grabs a hold of me
I wrestled hard so frantically
I kick, I plead, I cry
And as the thing let’s go of me
My feet begin to fly
Running till my muscles burn
Never more to see
What creature lingers in the dark
Waiting there for me
Finally I make it home
Climb into my bed
Pull my covers way up tight
Covering my head
A lesson learned, oh that’s for sure
Of that nightmarish scene
I’ll never walk alone again
At night on Halloween
Written for the Halloween Night – Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nayda Ivette Negron
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