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Concrete Dreams by Potent
- Concrete Dreams
- In the shadow of brick and steel, where dreamers dare to dwell,
- The sirens serenade, a mournful urban knell.
- Echoes of ambitions break against the walls so stark,
- As iron bars constrict my heart vitality, once a spark.
- Bills piled high like tenement tales, in a ledger broken,
- The language of survival spoken in whispers unspoken.
- Utility cuts loom like storm clouds in this gritty strife,
- Each flicker of light feels like a dagger at life.
- Struggling for sustenance, we barter dignity for bread,
- With each plate emptying echoing with voices of the dead.
- A patchwork of desires tangled in social webs unseen,
- Dreams deferred by violence; we’re caught within this machine.
- Ciphers swirl in alleys where shadows take their flight,
- Yet I rap to reclaim lost rhythm buried deep in night.
- Verbal acrobatics twist through cerebral circuitry,
- Words flow like water surging despite adversity.
- In Brooklyn's projects where hope is often shunned and scoffed,
- The pulse of hardship echoes as laughter turns to soft.
- Yet truth does not relent it flows from tongues that ache and yearn
- From struggle springs resilience; hear how embers burn!
- Grit stained ledger lines chart the courses we desire,
- As I navigate the chaos each breath ignites a fire!
- Trapped in cycles vicious as cats fighting for territory,
- They tell us ‘get your hustle on but what’s your path to glory?
- With graffiti dreams splashed upon concrete canvases bare,
- I narrate our existence the plight too prevalent to spare.
- Each line a testament to battles fought within this realm,
- Where survival’s not just instinct it’s setting forth the helm.
- Witness crimes chronicled by footfalls echoing dread,
- Nightmares weave through alleys; hearts pulsing with fear and lead.
- Moments crystallized a lens reflecting life's erratic dance
- Each step becomes a chapter in oppression's grotesque romance.
- Thirsting for justice served cold behind locked up gates,
- While fate and circumstance conspire how cruelly it awaits!
- Payouts minuscule while prices rise with sickening rapidity,
- Yet passion fuels my verses wrapped in unapologetic audacity.
- So here I forge my rhymes a sword forged from reality's bane,
- Carving pathways through the pain embedded deep within our vein.
- Their assumptions weave confusion as they blanket us with scorn
- But behold! We rise from ashes rebirthed amidst the torn.
- Rap is my salve; each syllable stitched tightly for tomorrow’s morn,
- An incantation of survival rebirthing dreams intrinsic born!
- No life should be defined by poverty or fear infused despair
- In this rugged narrative know we’re resilient as we dare!
- by Potent
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