She Bleeds For Brooklyn
She lives with low rent day dreams
on no name backstreets.
Dirty sidewalks made from quicksand concrete,
There's no yellow brick road.
In this city like a desert without an oasis.
Hope a disease that breeds in places,
Where God wouldn't go.
In the air there's a stench the smell of desperation.
lives are stamped with a date of expiration.
The Devil's grip on their souls.
Night crashes down with the sound of a train wreck.
She's on the prowl for love and everyone's suspect,
But they just leave her cold.
A chorus full of sirens singing life’s disasters
There’s no fairy tale ending living happily ever after
Reads like a Sexton poem
She cries with a sound that no one can hear
Her eyes lost their voice
Now she can't speak with tears
She wonders about life on the other side of the mirror.
Kneels down for one more unanswered prayer.
But there's no one listening out there!
She bleeds, she bleeds for Brooklyn
She's hemorrhaging lies and alibis
She bleeds she bleeds for Brooklyn
Break free Persephone
Brooklyn left the front porch light on.
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Copyright © Judge Santiago Burdon | Year Posted 2020
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