SHADOWS ON HALLOWEEN

SHADOWS ON HALLOWEEN

Roger A. Davis

We didn’t want to move from the lamp post
We were not sure there really weren’t ghosts
But the need for candy in our sacks
Sent us carefully making tracks

Other kids running out of shadows saying “Boo!”
Tempted us to exit home before our curfew
Yet the urge of our surgartooths
Made us press on against all sleuths

At one home, the takings were thin
A stick of gum, but on the porch a real looking goblin
This was Halloween before fear of unsafe treats
When tricks for most were innocent feats

I live in the country now
All I hear scary on All Saint's Hallow Eve
Is the coyote’s yowl
Goosebumps appear, are there ghost, do you believe?