This is Me

Halloween

Double, double, toil and trouble

What am I up to tonight?

Gutting pumpkins, carving faces

Stashing candy, made up places

None of which I’m at tonight

But in my mind I’m slaying dragons

In suit of armour turned to flowers,

I’m dancing in a fairy circle

Though I stop to take a sip of blood

From my victim’s neck

Back again to sit the throne

In the tallest tower

To practice spells and incantations

Then take to air with wings ablaze

Gliding above nations

To come back down, to land

Cheeks stuffed with sweets

Glitter falling to the ground, costume crumpled on the floor

Alas, the night is over, playtimes done

But when I fall asleep, it’s only just begun