Just don’t fix a date for October 31st – that’s all I’m saying!
Last Halloween
As skies were turning dark last Halloween,
I sat in terror, waiting for my date.
Then in he walked, all beautiful and lean,
With eyes whose depths I could not contemplate.
I studied his anatomy at length,
As there he stood, not daring once to breathe,
His jutting jaw betrayed a deathly strength,
His cheekbones were as perfect as his teeth.
He rattled through the small talk, then we delved
much deeper, and he let me see within,
And when we kissed goodbye, at almost twelve,
I really felt I’d got beneath his skin.
Then midnight struck. My vision cleared. I saw…
A skeleton was walking out the door.
© Nina Parmenter 2018
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