The Subway Incident

Brainwashed trees seeming at ease and at home
Breathless grass bruised and braced for the drone
Brilliant lights with their communist eyes
Bristling toxins befriending the skies
Genuine smiles flickering into the dark
Joyless angels standing guard at the park
Jaded eyesight mistaken for art
Jittery twisted up thoughts pulled apart
Infamous scrawlings by insensitive minds
Inferior boredom intimidating the blind
Innocence humiliated and immobilised
Imprisoned the superior love jeopardised
Pacified panthers asleep on the lawn
Paralysed monsters slain by the dawn
Vitamin answers were shifted and torn
Supplement solutions washed up on the shore
The daughters of summer stood up hypnotised
Mechanical beasts still anaesthetised
Strapped in their beds they were mesmerised
Their freedom retracted and monopolised
It was a cloudless scene but the skies didn’t care
Where prosperous poisons polluted the air
And a million opinions would tussle and tear
While the sacred observers slept unaware
Startled and stirring pretending to see
Dispensing their superficial sympathy
The late night girls stood seductively
Luring the businessmen clutching their keys
Exhilarated youths staggered out on to the streets
Exiled minds with no face and no feet
Exploitative criminals lurked observing the herd
Exposing the weak and suppressing the word
Devoted extremists were haunting their homes
Infiltrating the pipes, the wires and the bones
Cultivating hate from concrete seeds
Scrambling over spikes while their spirits bleed
Calling down clouds of chaos to earth
Summoning storms of corruption to birth
Towering gargoyles loomed threateningly
Striking their silhouettes indefinitely
And all of a sudden the children had been misled
Found they’d been mistreated, mistrusted, mistaken for dead
And they spotted Charlotte stumbling alone
Dazed and dilated making her way back home
And one of them starts to shout down the mile
Baring his teeth with a venomous smile
Charlotte focuses ahead and quickens her pace
Calculating the distance back to her place
A gang of lost souls feeding on taunting the weak
A pack of hyenas haunting the streets
And they chase after Charlotte and they laugh at her cries
As Charlotte flees on with tears in her eyes
Breaking through pain barriers, her heartbeat thumping
Praying to no one, adrenaline pumping
But run as she does the shouts get clearer
And she can hear their footsteps getting nearer and nearer
And the predators sense blood, spurred on by her fear
She screams but there’s no one around her to hear
Tearing down streets, panicked and scared
She comes to a subway and scrambles down the stairs
They come thudding down behind her, she tries her best to run
But Charlotte just no longer has the strength to carry on
The hunters grab her shoulders and they throw her to the ground
Charlotte tries to free herself, screaming out loud
But pinned against the concrete her neck can feel a knife
And they tell her to kiss goodbye to her freedom and her life
Charlotte shuts her eyes, sees vipers flickering their tongues
Nocturnal demons squeezing the air from her lungs
And then a concerned voice from someone she can’t see
And a hand on her arm snaps her out of a dream
A man was walking back home late at night
He walked down a subway and in the orange light
He found a girl having a fit at the bottom the stairs
Hallucinating killers and screaming at thin air
He ran down the steps and trying to stay calm
He called for an ambulance and touched her on the arm
And Charlotte woke up gasping and panting from the chase
Frozen from the shock tears streaming down her face
And she waited with the man for the ambulance to arrive
Her knees and elbows bleeding and panic in her eyes
The paramedics rushed down the steps to where she lay
And carried her up spluttering that she needs to get away.