Dreaming With Eyes Open
I come from a place where its all about your pace
Where hopes and dreams, Are written on your face
Sink or Swim, How?, If in a fire hydrant we played
Streams leading to sewage drains, Childhood dreams washed away,
Tabs on a corner store credit, Verses credit for a house to own
Bare foot and Pregnant, The statistic Known
Wall Street Stock market, Numbers rise then fall
The Statue of liberty, Skyscrapers stand tall
Graffiti and Death painted on Cement Walls
News of Mothers mourning, Repenting on a Sunday morning
Looking down from a firescape, Five storeys high
View of defeat, Hopes and Dreams Still Alive
Bridges merging boroughs of four
Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan their called
Window shopping in a Mall, We can't afford
Those women in Macy's, Their fragrance oh my!
Heightened my senses. My ability to strive
Crackheads at a corner store, itching for some kind
White picket fences, Time spent behind bars
Up on a roof top, Viewing of the stars
The American dream, Off the Avenue of Puerto Rico seen
The hustle and grind of a poor mans dream,
Sparking the hunger, To eat by all means
No walk in the park, No Broadway show theme
Average life in the City, The City that never sleeps
Dreaming with eyes open
Copyright © Tiffany Diaz | Year Posted 2015
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