Days and Nights

Time passes slowly as I wander the streets Gas and food prices soaring high Cars towed into the middle of the night Foreclosures stealing neighborhoods , Soup kitchens provide free food Jobs are scarce, illegal immigrants are not Overcrowded tenement buildings with attitude Drug lords , gangs and pimps, decaying city ruins Gun shots heard everywhere, bodies litter the streets at high noon Nature pounding on the doors of civilization The line between man and beast grows thinner Storms rage thru the night , the end in sight Time passes slowly as I wander the streets