Slum Madonna
Efficiency apartment
Exalted above street
Ambulance siren wailing
Mother cradles baby
Sighing ages of toil
In city of
Angst ridden teenagers
Yelling hormones
Far below
In dead end streets
Where futures fade
Into bar room obscurity
Maternal love eternal
In bastion of soot
Slum Madonna
Cuddling child of man
In Mexican blanket
Police cars blaring
Like conch shells
In the sacred night
