Halloween: Dialogue with the Dead
Dr Abe V Rotor
Remember our dead beloved, the unsung, unknown;
catch up with time for our failed expression,
prayers unsaid, love denied, gesture unrequited -
day of the souls to amend our infraction.
Dialogue with the dead.
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never
shows to anybody." - Mark Twain
The evil spirit comes for a visit. Merging of the real and imaginary.
"What’s the good of being a ghost if you can’t frighten people away?" - Barbara, Beetlejuice
Transported to the land of the dead.
"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see." Edgar Allan Poe
Treat or threat.
"A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers
and devilry dancing in her blood." - Roald Dahl
Whose party? Where have all the people gone?
"Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat." - Nicholas Gordon
Masks or real faces?
Faces, faces, young and old,
fair and coy and bold;
masks, masks, masks we are told,
sans feeling, and cold.
The dead takes center stage.
Come let's visit Dante's Inferno, and Milton's world,*
call on Frankenstein,** his monstrous creation;
travel to Transylvania, track the undead Dracula;
join the dead, their ghosts in celebration.
Good and evil for once their boundary open,
so with that of heaven and hell we implore;
take the backseat apostasy, paganism alive!
make haste, before Hades closes the door.
* Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, epic by John Milton** Frankenstein, novel by Mary Shelley
"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
- Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"
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