The Haunted Road

If you happen to pass by the old road out of town

Which is said to be unsafe, but actually isn’t so

The urban legends they have constructed about the road

Began when a traveller journeyed on it to get back home

He drove steadily along the road

But

He saw trees walking beside his car

With faces in the knots of their trunks

He also saw them dancing animatedly

And he heard the wind cackling as it blew by

The old transmission towers decided to join the party

By sending off showers of sparks

That day was special

The thirty first of October to be precise

The trees and their companion ghosts and ghouls

And all things sinister

Wake and walk the earth all day

So began an urban legend

That lasts even today

The Bilge Master