Turn back …
by Kym Eitel
It’s Halloween, it’s trick or treat, it’s time for dead to rise,
when coffins vomit up their corpse and witches fill the skies.
But all your friends are fancy-dressed as skeletons and ghosts.
Your big-mouthed mate says he’s not scared, he laughs and brags and boasts.
The echoes in your skull just scream ...
… turn back … turn back …
When shadows slide and moonlight glows on things that are not there,
when icicles of terror spike your veins and each scared hair
stands tippy toe upon your scalp and goose bumps prickle fear,
you wish you were inside your house, instead of standing here!
You beg, you wish, you pray, that they’d …
… turn back … turn back …
If all the dogs are cowering beneath their master’s bed,
then who, or what, is howling? Howling, howling fills your head.
You’re hot, so hot, and sweat is trickling ice cubes down your spine.
Though duds are wet from sweat (or pee?), you act like you’re just fine.
You wish that you could make your friends …
… turn back … turn back …
There’s footsteps close behind you, and you hear a rasping breath,
a bony finger taps hello, you smell the stench of death.
And still your friends yell ‘Trick or Treat’ and laugh as though it’s fun.
The voices in your brain are yelling, “grab ya guts and run!”.
If only you could find some guts …
… turn back … turn back …
Then Big-Mouth, he starts screaming but he’s frozen to the street
as Headless Horseman’s hoof beats thunder terrifying beat.
A blood-caked sword swings deadly arc and lops off Big-Mouth’s head.
It bounces, bleeding, big-eyed gawp, and hollers “Help, I’m dead!”
Your friends are rushing home and yell …
… turn back … turn back …
But all the ghostly spirits fly and all the werewolves zoom,
and all the vampires hitch a ride upon each witch’s broom.
Run up the stairs and slam your door, then feel impending doom
cos all the bones with rotting flesh are hiding in your room!
There’s spooks in here and ghouls out there …
… you can’t … turn back …
Cos you’re. Dead. Meat!
Mwahahahaaaa!!!!! Happy Halloween!!!!!
