halloween

Late at night in cold bed alone

Wondering mind to drift is prone

To dwell upon thoughts that scare

Tis haunting season so beware

Halloween thoughts invade the mind

Wondering’s of a fearful kind

The spirits of life forms you once knew

Reek revenge on the mind of you

The thundering herd of beef cattle

Vibrate the bed and windows rattle

Come to haunt you for their murder

You purveyor of the beef burger

The chicken flock flies round your head

For barbecue legs they are dead

The chicken caterpillar you see

With thousand legs for you and me

The sheep the deer and salmon come

You evil man what have you done

You wake with start and you hear

Full English breakfast for you dear

wasted

Young men march in uniforms

that they wear with pride

sent off to the trenches

to take all in their stride

try to cross no-mans-land

many corpses wide

calling for their mother

with dying sobs they cried

fighting for a freedom

the survivors are deigned


graves stones by the million

in religious segregation

simple bland inscriptions

that lack poetic imagination

now heroes that have fallen

to safeguard a nation

politicians heads held high

in false admiration

speak weasel words of comfort

tor a wasted generation