Last Halloween
By Mat Growcott
I remember last Halloween
Like it was only yesterday
I remember where I should have been
(The ice cream stand on Dodgeson bay)
Instead I went to my old mans grave
To scare myself and the ones I took
To give myself the scaring that I crave
I needed to at least take a look...
But out of the grave popped a skeletal hand
My friends screamed for mercy, and ran into the night.
I stayed and stared, without my 'fearless' band
It was dark, but could this be a trick of the light?
Out jumped a tall man, wearing a black cape
His hands and face bone white
His fingers thin as tape
His teeth looked ready to bite.
He looked down at me
And let out a blood curdling scream
He pulled of his head, better for him to see
The little human boy, the one he'd had in his dream
The little human boy, the one whom set him free
But I was to scared, to escape my skinless foe
He spoke in a deep voice, "why couldn't you leave me be?"
"I was happy with my friends, why'd you trouble me so?"
I didn't know what to do, as he swept me off my feet
His steps were long as he walked towards the path
He hit people as he went, the butcher, the baker and the policemen on his beat.
And after that he was gone, leaving a beaten me, as the aftermath.
And I never have forgotten that night
The night which killed me, sent my soul
To the one place where the boneman's friends
Can show me why not to wake him up
On Halloween night
When the monsters and ghouls come out to play
And the boneman can show how to dance and sway
And now he's gone, alive again
And the dancing has stopped
And the monsters seem to say
As they point at me night and day
That's the lad who stole Halloween
That's the lad who stole the boneman
That's the lad who changed the times...
And then the boneman's friends
Decide
A little torture's justified
And so next Halloween beware
Don't goto graveyards
For a good scare
Instead go and meet your friends
At the ice cream stand
But what ever you do
And hear me now
Don't go to your fathers grave and stand
But if you must go, then run when you see
the ghostly boneman
Or else you'll join me, by my side
Where you'll regret the day that you lied
And went to see the old mans grave.
Instead of going with your friends.
to the ice cream parlour
where your life won't end.