Underbelly

The hours grows late and so the night bodes ill, Another man falls, he did drink his fill. And what fate do the streets take, When the night cracks with a dawn break? The rotten and unwanted fate, Resented and repelled too late. When the breath of man became disgrace, Habitual of a hollow, heathen race. And the cumbersome unrest of drunken sleep, With a final sigh the streets does sweep. Here unbidden wretches mark out their day, In this sorry place they waste away. As the city shifts focus from watchful eyes, Concealing its dirt beneath painted lies. Without a sound each night exhumed, Then ritual veneer polished and re-assumed.