The Life Of Benjamin Cane & Other Stories

Victoria Fitch

The year it was 1956,

When people believed in magic and tricks.

They believed that the haunted house on the hill,

Had creatures inside which wanted to kill.

When in fact it was owned by Victoria Fitch,

A young and attractive, sorcerer's witch.

She had never ever wanted to kill.

She just sat alone and thought on her hill.

One day a surprise...a knock at the door!

Victoria jumped, and then dropped to the floor.

A handsome man, with dark brown hair.

She crawled to the window and started to stare.

A couple of minutes, then he walked away.

"Maybe he'd come back on Valentine's Day?"

Giving her flowers, he would be there to stay,

But everyone she'd loved was prone to betray!

All of her family, they wanted her dead.

Which made her insane and disturbed in her head!

So she had a plan to set herself free,

And invited her family all round for tea.

All sat together, she set them on fire!

Looking through the window as they stared to expire,

Magic had helped, they were finally dead!

Her angry, sad thoughts were cleared from her head.

But from that day on her days got worse,

Being all alone felt more like a curse.

"Maybe i could bring them back alive?"

"I can't be alone, i will never survive"

Walking around, alone and tormented.

She thought of the horror of the spell she'd invented.

Would bringing her family back from the dead,

Make them still hate her, or love her instead?

As it was her who had ended each life,

Why would they come back all nice and polite?

They would never ever forgive their daughter

They would straight away torture and slaughter!

Inside her house in the room that they died,

Their body's just lay side by side.

She locked all the doors with a magic key,

Then threw it away off a cliff, to the sea.

Till this day, she stayed there insane.

Her life had brought her nothing but pain.

Until there was again that knock on the door,

Which for good reasons, she had to ignore.

For the days to come, he kept coming back.

This brought her the smile she once knew she had.

But what did he want? Why was he there?

All she could do was hide and just stare.

One morning he happened to suddenly arrive!

This caught Victoria out by surprise.

He saw a face, through a hole peeking.

Walked up to the hole and started speaking...

"I have seen you here, when I've knocked on your door.

I've seen your reflection from a mirror on the floor"

"What is your name, are you going to speak?

I love your house it is very unique!"

The years of isolation had made her frail.

She was extremely weak and becoming quite pale.

She sat there in silence; it had caused her a fright!

As he walked in the room it was love at first sight!

In complete silence the feeling was bliss,

All of a sudden a passionate kiss!

He moved into her house and she kept having dreams,

Waking him up with terrified screams.

She took out some paper and wrote with a pen,

"I need your help i want my family again"

"They're in that room i really have tried,

I have this spell to bring them alive.

But what if i do it, I'm sure to be dead.

I have all these thoughts tormenting my head.

They will all hate me and give me their pain,

I ruined my family by becoming insane.

This house is haunted, I'm becoming possessed!

I'm bringing them back so i can happily rest!"

She brought out a jar that contained the spell,

Which was very old and started to smell.

She closed her eyes and the ground began to shake,

When they were open, her family were awake!

They stood up happy and were extremely glad.

Victoria had thought they would be rather quite mad!

But coming back they had forgotten their past,

For once in their lives, they loved her at last!

They were all very happy and all very normal.

Everything had changed, it was quite paranormal!

She had them back and she had her man...

All she could want, a new life had began.