A Halloween Story

It was a bright and sunny Halloween Day.

The leaves were shades of orange and red and a brown that could be gray.

At the bank there were kittys and ghosts and scary witches.

At the grocery store was Abraham Lincoln and Freddy Krueger and green men with stitches.

On the road were vampires and clowns on their cell.

The neighbor kids walking all around, but who was who, who could tell?

It was a picture perfect Halloween day.  The smiles and laughter and come what may.

Who could have predicted a wolf in wolf's clothing.

A small, hairy monster, in his world, a King.

On this Halloween day, on Earth, he had heard.

The people get hard candy and chocolate and popcorn, to his people, absurd.

This little king was fascinated by the fun and the tricks.

His people believed, this whole Halloween holiday was sick.

'Imagine making fun of our kind!' They exclaimed.

'Can't they see how upset we are? They should be ashamed!'

This little king monster didn't think the same way.  He thought 'How fun!  This Halloween day.'

He thought, 'Oh what the heck, I'll just slip out for a bit. No one will notice I'm gone and I'll be back before the sky is lit.'

So he was practiced in magic, as all monsters are.  He went down to Earth, by way of a falling star.

Going house to house, he was playing tricks and getting a treat.

'How fun this is!' he thought, 'How neat!'

By the end of the night the kids had all gone.  Time had come to use his magic before the dawn.

So he hopped on a rising star and went back to his own place.

Back to where monsters read meters and do other things commonplace.

The little hairy monster king crawled into his bed with his loot.

Hauling his chocolate and popcorn and hard candy to boot.

'I'll do that again next year!' He thought to himself.

'What a wonderful Halloween holiday!  I can just be myself!'

Happy Halloween!

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