The Greatest Monster

It creeps it churns,

In the pit it burns,

With gurgle and splurch it rises

To stalk my waking nightmares

With tentacles of spiders legs and worms

Its teeth made of jagged lava

Its body a mish mash of digested rubbish

Its skin, continually glistening

With a syrupy sheen

Its eyes a thousand caramel globes

Following my every move

I stand frozen,

Looking into the mirror

I, who have stalked monsters

Looked into the Leviathans jaws,

Seen the taint of the werewolf,

Followed the wayward vampire,

Leashed the nimble fairy

And yet this monster,

In it’s glorious moment

Causes me to think in revulsion

How could I,

The bravest of my siblings

The one destined to walk

In the darkest of places

Be bested by this basest of monsters?

As I look into the cool basin

Wishing that I were somewhere

Anywhere but here,

Had my desires driven me to this

A hallowed eve gone frightfully wrong

It hits me again,

Punching through my reserves

My stomach rolling with it’s taint

My willpower gone

To this monster of the night

And I realize at last

My mistake was in holding back

As I finally bend and

Gasping cry out

The monster reaches for victory

But in the end I have defeated it.

After a moment of tears I stand

And once again vow,

That fiend known as Halloween candy

Will never, ever, plague me again…