Who I am at Holloween

From down below near every tomb

You may think I’m in costume

But don’t be fooled at Halloween

Cause I wear it all the days between

Bloody color bold and clear

Is what I’ll be wearing every year

Two horns pointing to the moon

Yet to the sun in afternoon

I’ll gleefully run to and fro

Upon my toes from heat below

My heinous laugh will melt your bones

Too late your sins can’t be atoned

I’ll drag you down below with me

Can you guess what fiend

I be?

My tail is sharp and long and grasping

So watch you’re not one it’s clasping

I like my weaklings not too strong

I’ll take them home where they belong

So watch your step, stay on the level

Did you guess? you’re right...

The Devil!

Come dance with me and join the mirth

I live in hell beneath the earth

My britches burned so long ago

Yet still my cheeks have afterglow

I’ll serve you wine all night and day

Together we can go astray

I am the devil this is true

So watch your step

I’m after YOU!

corrine hg schlessel ©2004