Victims of a Down

Victims of the Down is a poem written by Armenian-American musician Daron Malakian. Malakian is most well known for being the lead guitarist, songwriter and occasional vocalist for metal band System of a Down.
Victims of a down
Nightfall on the deserted New York streets,/
A place where a collision of life and death meets/
Behind the dark alley,/
A cry is heard/
But no-one did hear it,/
No human, not even a bird/
The clock is ticking midnight,/
It's cold and it's wet/
A shadow of fallen lovers,/
A dying image you cannot forget/
The cold floor is stained in red,/
A puddle of blood where she lies/
Her entire life/
Is passing before her eyes,/
She gains consciousness,/
A single unshed tear/
She can't feel anything,/
The numbing pain and fear/
Next to her bloody body,/
Her lover silently looks at the stars/
His wounds and torn scars/
Yearn for the touch of rain/
His eyes are closing slowly,/
And then he opens them again/
But his wish stays ungranted/
As the sky is black with no cloud/
The girl's heart is weakly beating,/
The truth is there out loud/
Someone robbed them/
And hurt them both/
The girl could have been dead,/
If the boy didn't save her life/
But his last words are piercing,/
Tearing her soul like a knife/
Although I tried to save you,/
We are still to die/
It is God's will,/
Baby, please don't cry/
We are in His hands now,/
He'll do as he please/
Sarah, I want to kiss you,/
Her he pain tries to ease/
Sarah is weak,/
Her stomach is torn/
She cries for one reason only,/
Her little baby that will never be born/
Sarah, the boy whispers/
Are you dead?/
But Sarah's eyes are fixed at the sky,/
Her mind rejects what he just said/
Now her baby's dead,/
Cuz of the shortcut they took/
We'll get faster to the doctor,/
The boy said, the oldest trick in the book/
She would have given/
Her life for the baby to live/
Now the baby's dead,/
And she had no life to give/
Never did she expect to die at sixteen,/
She held the future in her hand/
Now she stopped breathing,/
Thinking of her baby, her life will end...

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