• The town was the
    Oldest & most forgotten
    In the city:
    Gloomy,
    Dark,
    Cigarette buds, condoms
    And crack
    Paved its sidewalk.
    Election Posters,
    Poster ads,
    And wrappers
    Clogged its
    Canals.

    No lights filled the houses
    Only the dim street lamps;
    Five on each street,
    Lit whatever road there
    Was.

    No kids played on
    The streets
    No women gossiping
    No men drinking.

    Every inch
    Of wall
    Was covered with
    Graffiti &
    Vandalism,
    Stickers
    And droplets of blood.
    No structure was safe from
    The offspring of
    Urban expression.

    The atmosphere was tinted with a mysterious
    Malevolence,
    All except for the
    Church:
    The priest had died
    Five years ago,
    Of what or how,
    That remains in the
    Records.

    The town never received
    A replacement priest,
    The church untouched,
    Unstained.
    Literally:
    No one bothered
    To go to
    The cobweb
    Filled
    And dust inhabited
    Church.
    Time has swept
    Through the pillars,
    Doors,
    Roofs,
    Chairs
    And the holy altar
    Of this grey church.

    None would not be
    Surprised if
    One was to find it
    Infested with
    Rats, mice, cockroaches
    And other disease
    Carrying critters.

    The house of
    God
    Is withered:
    Robbed of its Glory,
    God has forsaken
    This town
    And the town
    Abandoned God.