Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks October 2014: Halloween | Page 7

The Halloween Trail
Lauren Griffin
The screams echo behind
As they run further into the dark
Lost to the terror of a dying world
As the frozen forest flickers by.
Louder and wilder,
Laughter encasing wails of agony
Following the travellers down the winding road.
Faster, they sprint,
Leaving hollowed out breaths in their wake.
The gap between them closes,
As they strive to move forward,
The ebony emptiness overtaken by imagination.
Spectres moving through the shadows,
Are figments of long forgotten passengers
Along this corridor of death.
Closer now, they come,
Icy breaths grazing the backs of their necks
As they finally collide.
Two more souls, lost to the Hallowed Path.