She never thought she’d be a crime statistic
or have the crime against plastered
all over the news and on YouTube videos.
She was savagely murdered in June of 1993
on an unhallowed halloween night
by an evil stranger for the fun of it
in her home on Beacon Street awakened from sleep.
Fifty years later people who have lived the house she owned
occasionally see her ghost roaming through it
as if she never crossed over in the tunnel of white light
into the glowing meadows and enchanted lands
of the heavenly paradise in the afterlife.
Bob Boyd