IT HAPPENED IN AMESBURY


  Fall came, Whistling of the wind through the trees,


  Temperatures dropped as leaves floated to the ground.


  Halloween comes again to a small Eastern town,


  I lived there once as a child, the fear was not in my 
  Sight.

  Remember do I laying on my parents bed on a moonlit
  night,

  I recall a noise, something nearby, echoing in the woods,


  Scared was I as I thought I was dreaming in the night.


  Young was I but hearing a neighbor screaming nearby,


  Listening as sounds of frantic people traveled all around,


  No trace of a woman, just a shadowy figure running 
  Between the trees.

  It happened in Amesbury, Massachusetts, disappeared 
  One by one,

  Something of a monster, in the woods, never could 
  Be found.
                                               Keith Garrett