Smashing Pumpkins

How many days to raise this pumpkin From the seed, in which I sowed I gave it water, and I fed it As everyday I'd watch it grow There were nights, I was frighten That I'd lose it to the frost In the past, it'd come early And found it hard to bare the loss I'm not quiet sure, how people feel About the orange ball they see All I know what's in my heart and what the pumpkin means to me Some buy them, and they cook them Making soup or cakes or pies If I said, it wasn't yummy We would all know that's a lie Others make a Jack-o-lantern Evil faces, lit by flames Entertaining all who see them In a contest or a game But there are those Who'd smash these pumpkins In a cruel and twisted plea All I know, what's in my heart and what the pumpkin means to me How many days to raise a pumpkin At least eighty maybe more Tending daily to its needs But, it's quiet a loving chore Then to have them smashed on purpose For a purpose no one knows Destroyed in just mere seconds That took weeks and weeks to grow It takes time to raise a pumpkin And in an instant end its spree All I know what's in my heart and what the pumpkin means to me By JT Curtis May 2015