Once upon a Halloween

Once upon a Halloween.

Candlelight on mosaic floor
A howling wind knocks on my creaky door
The handle turns,
Oh the candle burns!...
Into the last raging flame
Then a molten stub again.
I see no more.

Cold as oil your creeping veil
Makes me your bride
And I hear your spell
Whispered like doom's omen
Tonight forever I'm slain.

Weeping softly from afar
A childlike maddening crooning in my ear
The persistent background noise
Of a stubborn barking dog
suddenly it ceases
And then the cold hard knock!

I am a mass of dread jelly quivering
On the ground
What creeps upon me does so with no audible sound
Claws like serrated pincers upon my throat
I see my bloated corpse upon the ceiling float

And the moon makes such a flouncy fluid mirth
Frothing into silvery disjointed rays that birth
A beauty that dresses the ghoulish hideous night
Of my betrothal to the Daemon sprite.

The rites complete I spin into
A frozen blur
My mind scalped off the body of fear
The darkness descending in me complete
The candle at my feet , now relit

And the only other thing besides me is you
Of leering mien and rubicund hue
Swarthy hirsute limbs entwined in mine
The stench of odorous talons soaked in my blood now thine

My last flickering light of sanity
Extinguished
As walls of flame leap into tongues
That jeer and hiss
Embracing darkness I am reborn
Into this
Never ending nightmare of
Tenebris.

(c) Amrita Valan 2015