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A Spartan's Halloween

October 31, 2007

by Asia Dorsey

halloween.jpgOn all Hollows Eve the witches scream as the mighty Spartan smiles,
For the ghouls didn’t know he’d steal the show in just a little while.
The ghost they daunt and the leprechauns jeer
As the Wolf-Man circles the cage.
He takes a leap from his sheep’s cloths heap and to the wolf-mans rage . . .
The Spartan jumped and the wolf-man bumped his head upon the stage.

The specter spectators go ape
With boos and shouts,
How angry they appear.
Until Count Dracula leaps on stage yelling, “No worries, for I am here!”

The Spartan frowns as the bars come down, this Dracula’s a fright.
Round two begins; he has to win, to live on through the night.

And so it starts, the beating heart of the Spartan begins to speed,
As he runs and jumps and kicks and leaps . . . and misses so valiantly.
The Count just laughs and bares his teeth; it was time to feed to the Spartans grief.
But never count a Spartan out. He gave the crowd a round-a-bout.
The vampire rushed,
His teeth sank in,
A cry rang out like death.
But this was not our Spartan’s end; he still had much fight left.
 For the vampire foolishly had not bitten into flesh, instead a silver vest.
The Spartan sword in hand then begins to rise.
 The self assured monsters were surprised to see Triumph in the Spartan’s eyes.
When the vampire rolled onto his side, the crowed snapped back,
And when the Spartan lifted up his sword . . . well, that was that.

Round three was eminent and that’s a fact.
That is when the devil himself came up to the stage to defend.
Boasting that if he too lost . . . a convert our Spartan would win.
And so, to prepare for this battle, the Spartan did the Super Man, to show the fiend his might.
He put up his fist and down his sword, and stood ready for this fight.
The ogres bayed.
The mud men gargled.
The audience sat still.
The little devil threw fire and ice, but our Spartan refused his will.
Many blows were exchanged, and the Spartan had many curses laid upon his name.
With both opponents face to face, the Spartan stepped back with an upper-cut to the devil’s face.
The devil bowed down and did his last dance.
He got down on his knees and began to chant,
“What do you do to a Spartan you meet?
You get down on your knees you cannot pray on your feet.”
The monsters then asked if the mighty Spartan had mercy to give,
He asked that they remove their masks, and happily that Halloween they lived.

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Written by Asia Dorsey · Filed Under Headlines, Living & Arts