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a walk down a broken road
As another night falls heavily
Upon a world of loneliness
Another stranger
Falls into the shadows
of a broken society..
Headlights crawl upon
The endless concrete
As its’ tinted windows
Blind the wills of any human contact
The sounds of Heavy footsteps
Echo across a silent sidewalk
Where the only voices that are heard
Are the impersonal songs from an mp3 player
Deafening the man who cannot hear a distant “hello”
From a friend walking toward the other direction
Tears fall from a child’s eyes
As a barbed wired fence
surrounding a house
Separates him with the soccer ball
That he hadn’t put down once that day
And the locks on the fences
And the shades in the windows
Defeat any hope of contacting the strangers
Who could stop the little boy from crying any longer
And the ring of a cell phone
Rips through the night sky
As the girl who answers
Is surrounded by a cloak of invisibility
For no stranger from then on
Would be able to see her
Only to hear
The shallow conversations
Of two strangers
who can not be seen
And as the moon rises
And the stranger had gone
The society of shallowness goes on
Like a dusty old record player
Playing the rusting songs of loneliness
throughout the endless night
