Halloween

A poem I wrote for Halloween of 2011 which was loosely inspired by a TDWP song.

Brutal chainsaw

Explicit shotgun

I’ve got a horde of zombies

Under midnight sun

Causing all this pain

No wonder they love

Living in my brain

Silver bullet

Wooden stake

Wolves and leeches burrow

Scratches and scars they make

Bleed out of my heart

They thrash and rip

Tender pieces apart

Metal crucifix

Glassy mirror

Medusa and her demons

Have set up residence here

I stare at snakes

Feeling stone paralysis

My attention they take

Trick or treat

Sugary candy sweets

Kids in ghastly costumes

At my door I do meet

They dress as the dead

“Oh children if only you knew

The monsters in my head”