sirens calling from every corner of the city dark brother lay covered in the blood of his lover we'd like to say he went down fighting but the facts that are aren't ours for denying only abiding by nightly then on into the morning the shells glittered on the pavement as we went walking through the horrific arrangements of bodies bent and bled and battered from broken homes to futures shattered they led his daughter away from the fight strangers light candles on the doorstep at night and to think even this couldn't draw the mayor from her throne no one to offer empathy for the child left alone a shower of sparks illuminates the silence on the streets of this the city of violence dismissed
