City Below (male)

Down here where the neon never glows

Rats run wild in the rivers that flow

Through veins of the city they’ll never show

I’m a king in the cracks of this endless grime

Cockroach crown

It’s my kingdom of time

Eating scraps of a world left behind

In the city below

We thrive

We grow

Where the sun don’t shine

But we still glow

In the city below

The secrets flow

Where the trash sings songs only we know

Homeless hearts hum with the hum of the pipes

Dreams dissolve in the fog of the nights

No stars

Just the hum of electric lights

The rats tell stories of the world above

Of laughter

Of love

Of skies they dream of

I just nod

I’m a king

I’m enough

We don’t need no gilded throne

We’ve got dirt

And it’s our own