It's that time again which comes every year 
a night of costumes ghouls and fear
with skeletal faces at our doors
witches cackling with spiteful claws

Pumpkins carved in the scariest of faces
candlelight flickering to enhance and embrace it
determined to scare the life out of you
the cauldron is stirred for the witches' brew

Children paraded with an axe in the head
when usually they'd be home, tucked up in bed
eyes glazed and vacant - blood from the mouth
try to avoid if you're out and about

Dogs aren't exempt from these ghoulish games
dressing them up in the scariest of ways
some can't be scary as they look so sweet
stood their with buckets for tasty treats

Don't forget them, in case they come round
you'll hear them outside - an excitable crowd
you can go out and see or, you could just ignore
remember they could play a trick outside your front door

If not compliant then it's all out war
a rotten egg usually thrown at your door
sometimes a stink bomb to get right up your nose
so turn off those lights and keep curtains closed