I love my city of
She is always home for me
A new stress with each new day
Just the way of these cold streets
We all escape in any way
You don't like drugs, we have T.V.
In this city we don't play
Fuck with us and you will see
You can call it just a game
But your bloods the currency
A hefty price that we must pay
Just to eat another week
Only our souls can be saved
It's far too late for the body
Some may wonder why we stay
If we are poisoned while we breathe
The smog will never go away
We are driven by machines
So much concrete we have laid
We spill oil when we bleed
While we laugh about this maze
Asphalt tears fall to the beat
Music thumping makes us sway
It's the rhythm that we need
So we can dance away our pain
In the darkness we are free
The Lost Angels of the day
Use the stars to find our peace
Were really Aztecs anyway
This is just our destiny
I guess its time for us to pay
For ancestral lust and greed
Should have sent Cortez away
Left him floating in the sea
In the end well be okay
They can't erase our history
It is written on our face
In the corn our children eat
Those brown eyes are still ablaze
We still have pride after defeat
We will have our glory days
Ocean breeze releaves the heat
I don't care what anyone says
Without
2 comments:
I really like this one. It seems to have pretty good flow and some effective images. I particularly like "asphalt tears."
Your poems often seem like song lyrics to me and I was wondering if you ever consider them that way. I know they are all meant to have some sort of cadence to them, but some seem like they could easily contain other beats and music.
I'm glad you want to share these with us. It's been years since I wrote a poem I would have felt confident sharing. Keep up the good work!
I wrote this poetry while listening to lots of hip hop. Different beats at different times. That was not intentional it just reflects on my mood for those 2 months. I think that theyd make much better songs than poems, but Im reaching for something much more than most song lyrics can deliver. Id be satisfied writing lyrics, but Im hoping for something grander. I feel some poetry lends itself well to music, and if mine falls into this category thatd be great, but in the end I really try to write a piece that can stand on its own without being spoken aloud. Wish me luck.
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