Anybody... In This Nobody Town

Anybody in this nobody town Care to help to tear it down The burned out strip mall With graffiti, profound The broken bourbon bottles That litter the ground... Anybody in this nobody town Dare to look up from your dilapidated frown To smile at the vagrants In their homeless compound Built of barely there boxes Where no wishes are found In the well worn wooded paths Where my childhood was found Anyone in this nobody town Content, collecting empty cans From the garbage mounds Walking in stagnant circles To the traffic sounds Seems time has forgotten, To no great astound... To remember the brilliance Then, like a jeweled crown Tarnished, now, to tin rubble, In ashes, to drown And here... once, long ago, a heartbeat did pound, For somebody Anybody.. In this nobody town...