MONDAY DIARY: ALMOST EXCRUCIATINGLY TRUE STORIES: KNOCK IT OFF

Every year: All Hallow’s Eve

I buy my favorite treats

for on this night I still believe

that one day someone will come knocking at my door.

Gazing out upon the night

from my window high

wondering - wondering if I might

spy someone knocking on my door.

With locked doors and darkened lights

I do my best to add

to the spookiness and the frights

of someone wanting to knock on my door.

For five years and then five more

I wait for “Trick or Treat!”

But what am I doing this for?

for no one comes to knock on my door.

Then late at night: our beggars dodged

we come to life and merry

eat our way through our bags of stodge

for we have avoided someone knocking on the door!