Come on you ghouls and ghosties <br />I’m waiting for you to come <br />Halloween night and I’m all grown up- <br />Do you think you can scare me some? <br /> <br />Now that I’m big and fearless <br />I never cover my eyes in bed <br />In fact I might even scare you now- <br />If you weren’t already dead? <br /> <br />Anything you want to try is fine <br />But just don’t make a mess <br />That’s all I’m really scared of nowdays- <br />My old joints getting stiffer I guess? <br /> <br />Oh, is that why you make that gruesome face <br />I thought it was just for effect <br />Auld Lang Syne can be damned to hell- <br />Now that we’re all become train wrecks.<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/be-very-afraid/
