Halloween can be a trick or treat
Witches, ghosts, scary things
Using candy, sweets, and parties
To celebrate October 31
This year, a day before the Lord’s Day
It is a trick of the devil
Not a treat from the Lord
How many have lost their lives on October 31?
So many that when you get to November
You can’t say “thank you” on Thanksgiving Day
But Black lives matter
Playing at being scary may lower your blood pressures
But being killed will give you no pressure
Witches, ghosts, scary things
God shed his blood for us
Not to kill us but to LOVE us!
Long-time District residents will remember instances of violence on Halloween night over the years: Two teenagers were fatally shot in 1999; six people were shot in 2011; four people were shot in 2014; a group of “as many as 20 teenagers or children” attacked a Georgetown student in 2016; and one man was fatally shot in 2018.
Rochelle Walker is an artist and vendor with Street Sense.
