MY CREEPY BROTHER BILLY--A HALLOWEEN POEM for KIDS

Got a scolding and sent to bed early.

As I climbed to my bunk overhead,

I saw Billy sucking on gummy worms

Getting them stuck all over his bed.

^^

My day had been a doozie--

Got in trouble for calling Billy a creep.

I'll read him a bedtime story,

So he'll be afraid to sleep!

^^

Took a book from under my pillow

Full of monsters and spooky delights.

If I read the creep a story,

He'll be scared when I turn out the lights!

^^

He'll be too frightened to stay in his bed

And cry, "Can I sleep with you?"

I'll say, "Stay there, I'll come right down,

What's all the hullabaloo?"

^^

I'll tell him, "You're such a cry baby!

Monsters and ghosts aren't real!

They won't come around in the night

And let out a blood-chilling squeal!"

^^

I'll say, "You're a big 'fraidy cat,

Too bad you aren't brave like me!

There's nothing here to scare you,

What do you think you see?"

^^

I'll read him a story about graveyards

With robbers and skeleton bones.

I'll made my voice low and whispery

With lots of moans and groans.

^^

Bratty Billy liked the stories,

Then he went right off to sleep!

I lay in the dark and waited

But he never made one single peep.

^^

I waited for him to wake up,

From a dream full of shadowy spooks.

He'd call up to me in a scared little voice

And I'd say, "You're a scaredy-cat kook!"

^^

I wasn't sleepy myself,

So decided to read some more.

Was right in the middle of a real good part

When I heard something scrape past the door!

^^

I listened real hard for a minute,

Then shined my light 'round the room.

Maybe it's just imagination

But I had a bad feeling of doom.

^^

I hung down to check on Billy,

He was sleeping and snoring real soft.

I bounced up and down a couple of times,

And even faked a loud cough!

^^

He snorted and sighed and rolled over,

Then mumbled a few words in his sleep.

But he didn't wake up and wasn't afraid

He's such a little creep!

^^

I sighed and went back to reading,

Then almost jumped out of my skin!

A shadow's outside the window--

A monster is trying to get in!

^^

I turned off my light in a flash!

Laid still as a stick in my bunk.

I'm sure I heard the rattle of bones--

And something that walked with a clunk.

^^

What's that? It's out in the hallway!

Something's walking with a squish in its shoe!

Oh no! Is the doorknob turning?

"Scoot over Billy, I'M CLIMBING IN WITH YOU!!!"

©DOREEN BRADLEY SATTER 2008