Mask of Halloween
Erica Schrock
You sit and stare with empty eyes
A ghoulish skeletal thing
With a cardboard maw and wolfish guise
You seem to grin and sing
Come put me on your head young child
Come round and let us play
For sure the woods are Dark and Wild
We’ll roam, as beast, till day.
Yet Imp I know your tricks! Says I
I made you tooth and fur,
You cannot frighten me tonigh’
Nor tempt me with your slur!
And so I placed away unseen
That Grizzly Mask of Halloween.
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