DUMB WITNESS ...

Agatha Christie's childhood doll at her Summer home, re-imagined by me.

 

“Poirot and I behaved in the customary fashion of people being shown over houses. We stood stock still, looking a little ill at ease, murmuring remarks such as: "Very nice." "A very pleasant room." "The morning-room, you say?”

 

- Agatha Christie, Dumb Witness

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1jG99z7lVY

【Sad and Scary Song】"Come Out And Play" Creepy Music Box】

 

Remember as a child you

wanted to

run away

TO the Circus

the Big Top

and all the magic it contained

and now …

now you want to

run away

FROM the Circus

the Clowns

and all the painted faces

white like ghosts and ghouls

perpetual grins like Cheshire Cats

that twist into grotesque

gargoyles pouring out

all the venom of the darkest world

oily greasy eyes on stalks

stalking through the jungle

of cemented towers

of demented glowering

demons

devils in disguise

but they cannot hide their eyes

their twisted souls that reek

and nasty games of hide and seek

whispering in corners

let them speak

it amuses me just a little

to hear them as they prattle

coughing their death rattle

cough it up

it may be a gold watch

more likely though it will be

a cockroach

or a deathwatch

beetle like

a Coachman's Staghorn

I stifle a yawn

it is tiring me out

watching the same old faces

in the same old places

sticking in their oars

sticky beaks

opening up their festering sores

no use to resist

no use in fighting

theirs is the proverbial lost cause

and they do not fall on their swords willingly

but their long and blackened tongues

lick the ground I walk upon

and trip them up until one fateful Halloween Night

they lose their fight

at last

they lose

their fight

and as for me

I am far too polite

to tell you where the bodies are buried

but listen out on Halloween

keep hidden; do not let yourselves be seen

and you will see them rise again

dark figures with hollowed cheeks and eyes

bones clanking

rags clinging

mudslinging still despite their untimely foul demise

and if you listen on the breeze

and hear behind you someone wheeze

who knows

that someone may be them

who knows

they may try to still condemn

me or you or anyone

they are not fussed

they do not trust

they lie and cuss

drag chains that rust

but hark, hark

the dogs begin to bark

as nightfalls down like a blackened cloak

somewhere close by

someone begins to choke

stay still

be quiet

throughout the night

for they will come for you

but on the morning after Halloween

if you wake up to see the dawn

and everything that went before was just a dream

stretch out your limbs; a stifled yawn

or was it just your imagination …

that crawling skin; that weird sensation

the tiniest seed of doubt

has only just been born

the tide is turning round about

hurry by the long tall fields of corn

WATCH OUT!!!!!

WATCH OUT!!!!!

the final shout ...

 

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🎃HAPPY & SAFE HALLOWE'EN EVERYONE!🎃

 

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