The pumkin lantern

Come gather round all good children    
Find warm clothes stout boots and garments
All year things remained so hidden  
The screams to start a racing heartbeat  
   
Past the church yard in the mist  
Whitened bones in the earth do shift  
A yearly outing creaking oh so stiff  
Mother said we must counter all that stuff  
   
For a lantern we must carve    
The thirtyfirst  is halloween    
The biggest pumkin make a start  
Scoop it out till it is clean  
   
Fashion it with an evil gleam  
Crooked teeth twisted and bent  
Malevolence that must be seen  
A grimace to stand your hair on end  
   
Light it with a stumpy candle  
That decapitated squash  
Cast that shadow with its mantle  
Alive and ready to set off  
   
Ready to collect the bounty  
Neighbours await the expected knock  
Sweets and treats and such aplenty    
Or plagues of ghosts will run amock  
   
Placate the threat with charms of sugar  
Send them packing turn the lantern  
Pockets ever growing fuller  
The little horrors and all kinds of phantoms  
   
Spooks hang on the web of malice  
Bats tangled in the hair the menace  
The sugar rush the threat to combat  
 Children out of control and rampant  
   
The rotten teeth the nights legacy  
Reclining in the dentist chair    
The light to spy each cavity  
A new denture set for each to wear  
   
A horror story to always retell  
Chew on this dark moral tale  
The lantern lights the last farewell  
The white ghost's of the teeth that fell