http://spillwords.com/author/phyllispcolucci/
https://www.amazon.com/Phyllis-P.-Colucci/e/B00VMU8B44
MY SISTER AND I HAVE A TALE TO TELL
SOMETHING WE’VE HIDDEN SO VERY WELL
IF THE YEARS COULD SPEAK OF A SECRET WE KEPT
MY PARENTS WOULD SURELY HAVE SADLY WEPT
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG GIRLS
QUITE INQUISITIVE TO THE HILT
WE WERE SUMMONED TO THE ATTIC
AND WE OBLIGED WITH DEEP GUILT
FOR MOM AND DAD HAD NO CLUE
AND WE WEREN’T SURE WHAT TO DO
BUT WE DISOBEYED THEIR WARNINGS
AND BIT OFF MORE THAN WE COULD CHEW
THEY FORBADE US TO VISIT THE ATTIC ALONE
THEY SPOKE IN THAT SERIOUS ADULT-TONE
THEY SAID IT WAS DUSTY, CLUTTERED AND DARK
AND CALLED IT A HUGE "DANGER ZONE"
BUT IT WAS HALLOWEEN NIGHT
MOM AND DAD HAD A DATE
THEY KISSED US GOOD-NIGHT
AND SAID THEY’D BE HOME QUITE LATE
DAD DRESSED LIKE A WARLOCK
MOM DRESSED LIKE A WITCH
THE DOOR SLAMMED BEHIND THEM
WE THEN LAUGHED AT HIGH PITCH…
YES, OUR HALLOWEEN SECRET
WAS STRAIGHT OUT OF A DREAM
WE BOTH HEARD “THE VOICE”
WE BOTH LET OUT A SCREAM
WE BOTH SHOOK IN OUR BEDS
THIS PAST HALLOWEEN MORN
WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DREAMING
OF SWEET CANDY CORN
…“COME UP TO THE ATTIC TONIGHT, SWEETPEAS
THE KEY IS UNDER THE DOORMAT - AND COME ALONE PLEASE!
YOUR PARENTS WILL BE OUT OF SIGHT TONIGHT
SO COME AND JOIN ME IN SOME HALLOWEEN DELIGHT!”
…HAND IN HAND, WE CLIMBED EACH WOODEN STAIR
POSSESSED, WE HEADED TO THE DEVIL’S LAIR
WE GRABBED THE KEY FROM UNDER THE DOORMAT
BEING EVER SO CAREFUL NOT TO WAKE UP THE CAT
WE TURNED THE KEY IN THE KEYHOLE WITH EASE
THE DOOR OPENED SLOWLY AND “THE VOICE” YELLED “FREEZE!”
THE DARKNESS HUNG OVER US LIKE A THICK CLOUD OF SMOKE
AND THAT EERIE VOICE BELLOWED, AND LOUDLY SPOKE
IT DEMANDED WE ENTER, AND SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND
WE MUST BE INSANE! - THIS VOICE WAS NOT VERY KIND
WE HELD ONTO EACH OTHER AS TIGHT AS COULD BE
THEN A CLOSET DOOR OPENED, AND WE WERE ABLE TO SEE
A DIM LIGHT ILLUMINATED TWO COSTUMES FOR US
“THE VOICE” SAID GET DRESSED NOW AND DON’T MAKE A FUSS
AT THIS POINT IN TIME WE NEEDED TO LEAVE
BUT “THE VOICE” WOULDN’T HAVE IT; WE WANTED TO HEAVE
WE PUT ON THE COSTUMES UNWILLINGLY
TWO PRINCESSES CRYING CHILLINGLY
“PRETTY IN PINK” ONE MIGHT SAY
BUT TONIGHT IT FELT SINISTER IN EVERY WAY
SUDDENLY THE ROOM WAS ALL AGLOW;
PURPLE CANDLES STEALING THE HALLOWEEN SHOW
“THE MONSTER MASH” SONG BOUNCED OFF EVERY WALL
SHADOWS AND SILHOUETTES STOOD QUITE TALL
THEY DANCED ABOUT, AT THIS “HALLOWEEN BALL”
MY SISTER AND I WERE LOST IN THE HAZE
HOPING TO MAKE IT OUT OF THIS HALLOWEEN MAZE
EACH CORNER OF THE ATTIC SANG ITS OWN SONG
WITH GHOSTS AND GOBLINS THAT DIDN’T BELONG
THIS WAS OUR SPACE, WHERE OUR “SECRETS” WERE BORN
THIS HALLOWEEN NIGHT LEFT US FORLORN
AND THERE WAS THAT EERIE VOICE, ALL OVER AGAIN
SOUNDING LIKE A TRAGIC HALLOWEEN HEN
“THE VOICE” OFFERED US A SIP OF WITCH’S BREW
WE’D RATHER HAVE A TASTE OF MOM’S HALLOWEEN STEW
THEN OUT OF NOWHERE A HAND DID APPEAR
PRESENTING US WITH CUPS OF SIZZLING HOT CHEER
WE ACCEPTED THE GESTURE WITH A FORCED SMILE
GIVING IN TO THE HORROR OF THEIR RUTHLESS GUILE
WE WERE WISE ENOUGH TO DROP THE CUPS TO THE FLOOR
AS WE RAN TOWARDS THE OLD FAMILIAR ATTIC DOOR
READY TO LEAVE THIS “HALLOWEEN SECRET” BEHIND
WITH A PINKY-SWEAR, WE AGREED IN KIND
BUT THE JOKE WAS ON US AS WE OPENED THE DOOR
THERE WAS MOM AND DAD ROLLING ACROSS THE HALLWAY FLOOR
THEY WERE LAUGHING AND HAVING A GRAND OLD TIME
EATING HALLOWEEN CANDY AND DRINKING RED WINE
THEY NEVER LEFT THE HOUSE TO GO OUT ON A DATE
THEY SIMPLY ORCHESTRATED THESE EVENTS OF LATE
THEY HANDED US CUPS OF MOM’S HALLOWEEN STEW
AND WITH THAT EERIE VOICE YELLED “THE JOKE IS ON YOU!”
HOW SAD THAT SISTER AND I HAD NO TALE TO TELL
OUR HALLOWEEN SECRET FELL TO HELL
THE ATTIC WAS NOTHING MORE THAN THAT
A SAFE HAVEN FOR ME, MY SISTER --
AND OUR LITTLE BUDDY, THE CAT
…SO HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO YOU MOM AND DAD!
…LOVE AND CHEERS TO ALL OUR SPOOKY FRIENDS,
…WHO WE WILL SEE NEXT YEAR, AS THIS OCTOBER ENDS!
