The City Slumbers
The city slumbers, and someone will die
savagely in darkness where such evil hides.
No one could save him, and no one had dared
to challenge the hatred, and fewer had cared.
The city slumbers, yet another soul cries
out for mercy, or forgiveness, or pleads for his life
in the face of this sickness. We've ignored the truth
that we bred the monsters that corrupted these youths.
The city slumbers, and the children will sleep
silently in bed, and their parents must keep
a vigil. So what is a child's hard fate
in this sinister place absorbed with such hate?
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