This city, once unbreakable

now lingers, hanging in the balance

stripped down by mind controlling flames

turned away in the evening rains

memories layer the walls

but they rarely speak anymore

derisive bodies still crowd the floor

never destined for the morgue

time stands still here

the broken sky, my scars

the breath on the wind braces no calls

just shattered pleas of victims

spreading their lives like disease

tattered offerings of childhood dreams

haunted and drowned right on through

most never even lay on these callous roads

this is the ghostly ruins of a place i once called home

but don’t let the remains fool you

trick you into their manipulative arms

and their twisted lies that drip down from dead branches

cutting through your surface of flesh

in flashback knives of recollection

the stalkers, the offenders

they still cling here in shadows

the ones that dart across the floor

the ones that greet the corners of your eye

skim across your brain and wave goodbye

in life they may have formed something reasonably human

here the horid truth casting shapes

the squelching desires, the fangs, the claws

feeding your fear like every single night of your life

forever stuck reliving what happened here

treading their filth across the entrance

of the only house in the area still left standing

the grand white house that once caged me in

drove my every smile retreating deep within

this is where they greet, old friends of evil

still fresh enemies of mine

my veins travelling, consuming like vines

there was never hope of escape

this death fire is all in my mind

and the crawling demons

still follow me, my shadows for all my life