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