Crimson Dawn
Spectral
light illuminates
The dark
corners of the night
Every twisting street leads to nowhere
Shadows cloak forgotten souls in mystery
Faces peer from the frayed edges of a torn city
Ravaged by merciless winds of poverty
Rattled by icy breath of winter vortex
Solace in numbed bliss
Penetrating the marrow of being
Visions dancing in the firelight from barrels
Extinguished in last throes of smoldering red
Klieg lights vanquishing
Haunted remnants of refuge
As batons clang against ghostly phantoms
Flower growing in crevice of cement
Crushed in bloom of youth
By polished boots reflecting sodium shine
Under the roof of golden eternity