Spirit

My shirt is orange, pants are black. It isn’t spirit that I lack, But every year on Halloween, I’m more surprised by things I’ve seen. The stores and houses, all decked out With spooky creatures all about - The spiders, skeletons and bats, The zombies, witches and black cats… The Halloween parades at school, The pumpkin carvings - oh, so cool! The costumes and the money spent All make it seem quite evident That Halloween’s a great escape And most of us would rather gape At made-up monsters than to face Our real-life fears, so commonplace.