Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks October 2014: Halloween | Page 8

All Hallow’s Eve
Emer Hayes
Dark spirits rise
To tiptoe and creep amongst the living.
Children cackle and scurry in hordes,
Guided by the dim glow of pumpkins.
Bonfires crackle and snap
Like the bones of the damned below
Who did not pilgrim this year.
People wear costumes of demons,
While demons wear costumes of people.
Fireworks explode into the sky.
The eyes of onlookers are filled
With puffs of rainbow dust.
Distractions from the darkness
That clings to the sky,
That seeps from the wall to the otherworld.
That keeps the monsters at bay.
Each Halloween night more cracks form
And more black trickles through.
I wonder when will the wall come tumbling down.
For their monsters to unite with ours.