Windy City Shadows

Steel toes stompin’, streets full of thunder

Windy city shadows, pullin’ you under

Echoes of the blocks, talk in code, no blunder

Watch the skyline bleed when the night go asunder

Heavy bass rumble, heartbeats align

Every step a gamble, walk the fine line

Cold winds cut deep, scars they define

Out here survival’s the anthem, a life so confined

Corner store plots, chess games on the ave

Moves calculated, life’s a gift you can’t halve

Cops circle slow, blue sirens like the rave

But these concrete jungles breed kings out the brave

City lights flicker, dreams turn to smoke

Hope’s a tightrope, balance or choke

In the belly of the beast, tales never spoke

You either rise with the fire or fade in the cloak

Hustlers and poets, both bleed the same ink

One on the paper, the other in the brink

Chains swing heavy, wrists still clink

But freedom’s in the mind, not the links you think

Heavy bass rumble, heartbeats align

Every step a gamble, walk the fine line

Cold winds cut deep, scars they define

Out here survival’s the anthem, a life so confined