Clocks are strange at work for they move so slow

Time crawls by like an ancient withered sloth

The minutes pass as the sun goes down low

My long-awaited breaks seem eons off

It's almost ten; time for me to depart

I watch the seconds slowly melt away

Swarms of gaunt workers bleeding out their hearts

I punch my card and breach the grim archway

This somber city is ill-lit at night

These streets that I used to roam are now dead

This cold, slain town corrupted with foul blight

What once was cobblestone is now asphalt

The faces I see prowling I know not

Uncharted horrors that will haunt my soul forever

How I live with myself is the question

To survive one must always stay clever

I continue the swift walk to my home

I see a smiling face

A welcome sight amongst the steel and chrome

In the end, I was right

He pounced on me like a savage animal

Teeth ripping into my flesh

I told you this place was filled with monsters

Especially the ones you never expect

Our bodies will line the streets

A testament to our lifeless lives

Insects among the groundwork

Forever in death as in life