Dark assumed, and dressed, are the young’ ones silently for awhile
Shouting, Trick or Treat!
Delayed are the older stunned from yet to be unwrapped gifts
Soon to be tricked with sudden illumined tricky shadowed hilts
Consciously aware as they wonder on, alive yet dead wondrously neat

Halloween approaches frighteningly fast;
This day marked, the end of summer,
The end of food abundance, and plant vitality for farmers
Striving on proudly vast

Spirits of the dead roam freely, on the day known as "The Day of the Dead,"
Living relatives helping their dead loved ones complete a safe journey towards the afterlife,
Somewhere not, are just them, but also freely loved ones sharing bonds
Engaging themselves with eternal wed

Paint or carve scary faces, on gourds and turnips for disguise;
Outlandish flawless fright, scare away the evil spirits,
Wandering the earth that night
Rumen scoffed, fauves aloft, three and one, thirty one
Drowsed by sudden, breathless frost and angered by pagan practices
Sought to eliminate, separate good from bad, blinking and memorizing confusing sloshed

A few hundred years, its date was changed;
It would fall on the same day as Samhein,
As part of the custom, of “All Saints Day”
Praising and with pride standing up as a saint;
Young men going door-to-door begging for food to feed the town's poor in remembrances…
Yesterday’s melancholy restless shine, finding the spoken about struggled moor
None the less are the ones already dead, yet spoken of past smothering zest
Innocent travels of the longing, for correcting the day of faint

The customs of Samhein and All Saints Day began to merge;
No longer considered two separate festivals,
Rather five days after the month of May, Called “All Hollow's Day”

Irish immigrating; they brought with them European customs
All Hollow's Day, an existing, tradition called "Autumn's Play"
Celebrating to sing, feast, light bonfires and watch children parade in costume,
Two festivals shaped this present; after the month of May
Halloween and all of the spooky phenomena that we enjoy today