Halloween 2025

Wet and humid Halloween,

the rain a steady drizzle.

Children came in flocks and droves,

all for treats and praise.

I handed out as instructed

fistfuls of candy.

The bowl was empty and woe,

The hoard was still descending.

In went more candy to the bowl

to sate these hungry beings...

but now instead of fistfuls,

the candies handed out

were now a meager two.

Sadness to be given only two,

when those before got more,

but those were the instructions

I was given through the night.

At last the trick or treaters

Stopped coming by.

We still had candy,

to parents’ delight,

and thus did we end

by turning off the porch light.