Skyline Hustle

City’s spine cracks, neon veins flowin’

Concrete jungle, where the wild keeps growin’

Hustle in my marrow, shadowbox with the sorrow

Yesterday’s debts, paid with tomorrow

Billboards preachin’, dollar signs screamin’

Pavement dreams crushed, yet I’m still schemin’

Echoes in the alley, past me keeps callin’

Skyline whispers, skyscrapers fallin’

Skyline hustle, where the nights don’t sleep

Promises buried where the shadows creep

Chasin’ that high, the grind won’t buckle

This city got a pulse, that skyline hustle

Cranes swing like pendulums, time don’t pause

Clocks tick backward, rewind my flaws

Cabs zip past, a blur of yellow ambition

Streetlights flicker, signal my condition

Grit under my nails, soul in my kicks

Dodgin’ the traps, every corner got tricks

The hunger ain’t a metaphor, it’s growlin’ loud

A dream’s a diamond buried deep in the crowd

Steel and smoke, my lungs breathe the grind

Sippin’ on hope, leave the past behind

Horns blare loud, chaos my melody

This city’s my cage and my remedy