All Hallows Eve

Tonight a gateway

To the dead

Opens, and the

Rich darkness

Walks the Earth

All the lost

Promise, the forgotten

Potential, the lived out

Lives.

Awash, the world is

Remembered again.

The howl of a past

Cutting through a 

Present shallow

And selfish.

Remembered the

Pallid unfulfilled,

Dispersed dreams,

Once fluttered skyward

Now descending as ash.

The kids will go

Trick or treating

Tonight, their hopes

Sating the alive dead.