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Urban Decay

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Urban Decay

Walking down allies,
With nowhere to go,
Past broken dreams
And shattered windows.

Rusted remains
On littered ground,
Decrepit structures
Degraded and browned.

Corrupted, dilapidated,
Deteriorated places.
What would you say
If these buildings had faces?

Eroded, corroded
And weather-worn
These transient lives are
Too far gone to mourn.

Faded and jaded,
As fleeting as dust,
One day we’ll all
Be a part of this rust.

It’s all been torn down
And we’re left to grow.
Would we go and change it
With all that we know?

It’s too late,
We’ve lost our way.
Just another example of
Urban decay.
For anyone's who's lost their home or in the process of losing it.

Paired with "Another Day" as an English assignment, 2008. HERE. [link]

Moved from main account ~jinxedbyemily. Used as inspiration in [link] by ~GhostedArt
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Bark's avatar
This one stirs a lot of memories for me. An old railroad town called Hamlet, NC, that died an agonizing death...