The Tale of Nobody Scaredy Cat

Last night as I lay softly sleeping

I was disturbed by someone weeping

And the eerie sound of footsteps creeping

Whose were those footsteps creeping, creeping?

My heart beat with a growing dread

As a spectre formed beside my bed

Dull eyeballs hanging from its head

Such dread eyeballs in its head

The room reeked of its rotting bones

It opened its dead maw and moaned

Then spoke to me in mocking tones

I shan’t forget its mocking tone

“You made a wish that every night

Was full of fear and mortal fright

Your wish fulfilled ‘tis my delight

Oh yes, oh yes, ‘tis my delight

Tonight you can forget sweet dreams

This eve shall only bring shrill screams

Welcome dear to Halloween

Your own eternal Halloween!”

My deepest fears were to unfold

I felt my thumping heart stop cold

My skin grow wrinkled, pale and old

Once young now old, once young now old.

My mind could not believe my eyes

That wish I’d made now seemed unwise

There was no one to heed my cries

No one there to heed my cries

I begged the beast to let me go

To lift the spell that bound me so

I wept and cried, “Oh no! Oh no!

Oh no… oh no… oh no… oh no!”

The spectre, with contempt, he spat,

“Calm down, my dear, enough of that!

For no one likes a scaredy cat!”

Nobody…nobody scaredy cat!