Sirens.

Sirens in the distance

Signal another night of harm

Emergency vehicles rushing

Along roads like corpuscles

Lights flashing red and blue

On multiple HiVis vests

Turning cops, ambos and fieries

Into beautiful hideous beetles

Scurrying through the wreckage

Scanning the carnage

 

This is a broken town –

Broken up, broken into, broken down

 

With a dire persistence

Sirens in the distance

Turn the night into one long alarm

Ensuring there will be no sleep

While forgone children break and enter

Running rampant as the night is theirs

Broken homes and broken families

Poverty and insecurity

Spewing out crews of little delinquents

Stealing and crashing cars

 

Is the answer to put them behind bars?

Prison does produce a better class of criminal…

 

Meanwhile sirens pierce the night

Echoing along with red and blue light

As the diurnal chase begins

Trying to catch the race card

Despite the fact it never wins

While the government makes moves to

Funnel damaged youth away from jail

Already bulging at the seams

Businesses are groaning

Residents are fuming

Enough is enough is enough

 

This is broken town –

Broken into, broken up, broken down

 

©shaun patrick green 2023.