"NIGHT FRIGHTS"

I knew it was Halloween, but figured what the heck,
go through the cemetery to get home, wasn't a long trek,
so I walked right through that creaky main gate,
and when I did I had the impression it was too late...

Well I didn't know it, that is, what I was getting into,
until scary things started to happen, holy whew,
I heard this noise, sounded like something very angry,
what was it I wondered, was something going to abuse me...

Something was flying after me, with cackling laughter,
there was a ghost person looking like an aggressor,
I didn't want to agitate it, so backed away did I,
didn't do any good though, it caught me with its eye...

So I turned tail and ran, later they said I was pure white,
I was really scared, had a whole lot of trembling fright,
and as I was running, fast as I could down that curvy path,
out jumped this thing, with its entire terrible wrath...

A ghost, a thing, wow Batman I thought, what's next,
I shouldn't have asked, because next was the best,
evil red eyes were looking through the dark at me,
it was coming from over there, behind another tree…

It gurgled and said "A'rrrrrgggg", and other bad things,
I said, "Wow Bill, this is not good, just too many beings",
my teeth were chattering, like I was into an earth quake,
hoping that that gurgling thing only had a belly ache...

Never found out what it might be, because I left in posthaste,
before that whatever thing it was wanted me to taste,
I took off from that cemetery, yelling “yahooo, come on feet,
help me get out of here, just once make me an athlete",

So I learned one lesson, if you must walk through the park,
don't go there when it's Halloween, midnight, and dark,
because all of those creatures, they have pretty big appetites,
and there is one thing for sure, they will certainly give you
night frights…

~~~~
Bill Charles
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10/26/2009