Where the Town Boys Went

Born in a town where the sun hit slow,

Streetlights flicker where the cold winds blow.

Lost my brothers one by one to the snow,

Powder paved the roads that led where none go.

Where my Town Boys? Streets gone silent.

Echoes in the dark, memories' alignment.

Drenched in regret, scars too vibrant—

Wishing I could pull 'em from the grip of the tyrant.

Rooftop hangs, we was kings with a scheme,

Now chalk lines map out the death of the dream.

Corners got colder, the block’s dark theme,

Poison in they veins, shatter every beam.

Smoke in the air, it ain't celebration,

It's farewell letters, final resignation.

I'm chasin' their shadows through lost vibration,

My spirit screams loud, but I’m stuck in translation.

Where my Town Boys? Heard 'em in a whisper.

Ghosts of the past carving through the blisters.

Wish I had a map, road’s only slicker,

Tears fill the cracks, vision gets thicker.

Still pourin' out for 'em, name etched in glass,

But this pain ain't passin'; it just amass.

Couldn’t dodge fate, hit the redline fast,

What’s left is a tale of friendship gone past.

Watch how the shadows creep,

In the night where the silence weeps.

Oh, the echoes of laughter turned to pain,

In this town where the heartbeats wane.

We were young, wild, running free,

Dancing past the river, laughing by the trees.

The dreams were alive, till they faltered and fell,

Now the stories we tell, hold a different spell.

Once we stood together, through thick and through thin,

Now I fight the memories, that the darkness brings in.

In the whispers of twilight, I hear their lost voice,

Fading like the echoes of a silenced choice.

Watch how the fentanyl killed my old Town Boys,

Sinking under the weight of forgotten joys.

Chasing the light but trapped in the gloom,

In a town where the shadows create a tomb.

Oh, the nights feel heavy with the weight of regret,

Empty bottles, hollow hearts, and shards of regret.

I search for a way to rewind the time lost,

But the memories haunt me, at what cost?

We were brothers and dreamers, with fire in our veins,

Together we conquered the laughter, the pains.

Now I wander this alley, amongst the discarded dreams,

Finding only echoes, where nothing redeems.

Every corner I turn, feels like a goodbye,

To the boys that I loved, now just a sigh.

In the stillness of night, I hear their last plea,

In this town where the shadows swallow me.

Watch how the fentanyl killed my old Town Boys,

Sinking under the weight of forgotten joys.

Chasing the light but trapped in the gloom,

In a town where the shadows create a tomb.

So I stand by the river, in the ache of the night,

Holding their memories, casting them in light.

In the heart of this town, I’ll carry their song,

For the boys who were lost, where the shadows belong.