The alleyways are littered with broken bottles

Bleeding amber liquid

A fixer

Another boy pulls the trigger 

And paints the dirt with

Something blue

 

The alleyways are hallways

Scattered with wounded soldiers

Tripping and spilling

Dreams forgotten

Trampled underneath the masses

Not enough bandages

 

Lost things litter the bleachers

A stolen kiss between the metal structures

A synthesis reaction steals the luster

Another fracture beneath the skin 

 

Covered in darkness

Where's the needle?

Poke the holes

In the cloth you stitched together

Yourself

You

Let the neon lights shine through

And pepper away the darkness