City Of The Dead

In this city of broken dreams
Monuments of death arise
This is the Necropolis
Where the nameless live and breathe.

Rotten tombs of ancient kings
Days of glory are gone
A mockery to the living souls
Confined in darkness.

Trapped inside these walls
Between their father's bones
Stillborn to this world
All their hopes are lost.

Doomed to live on a burial ground
An empty shrine their home
The poorest of society
Find some shelter but no peace.

Children play between the stones
Laughter echoes from the walls
Their cradle of innocent joy
Will be their grave of sorrow.

Trapped inside these walls
Between their father's bones
Stillborn to this world
All their hopes are lost.

No safety, no dignity, no light, no justice
no future, no home and nowhere to go
Their misery, frustration, anger, depression
sadness, madness will drown in hatred.

Trapped inside these walls
Between their father's bones
Stillborn to this world
All their hopes are lost