City At Night

In the midst of lights
There is the darkness
Denizens of the night
The lost/dazed/homeless
Johns/pimps/whores
Children on the run
Meal a discarded bun
Seeking shelter, finding locked doors

Drunkards stagger and stumble
Lost in urban wilderness
An underbelly rumbling
Young/old/restless
Like the grass that creeps
Prowlers free to roam
Night not day is home
Predators of the dark

Tell me of the beast
And of his dark feast
Let us become his bane
End his terrible reign
Stop this plague, this blight
Reclaim our own tonight