Highrise

Darkness in these highrise apartment
and some people call it home.
I call it imprisonment in my environment.
A prison that keep me locked down in the system.
The highrise apartment so small.
I feel like I'm suffocating.
I never see sunlight from my windows.
I can tell these highrise apartments was place intentionally in the parts of the gloomy city.
The rats live freely and the roaches laying eggs in every apartment.
On every corner there is a hustla
and on every corner of that corner is a officer.
Kids playing in a park with weed bags and blunt empties.
I look into other people faces and wonder can they see what I see.
I see a highrise with no hope in a area filled with drugs, liquors, and whores.
I see a highrise in my city where people wait on a wait list so they wouldn't be homeless.
I see sadness everywhere I turn and
birthdays feels like a punishment.
On my block where these highrise are built,
even when the sun is shining everything still look gloomy grey.
Every highrise is painted brown, grey, and tan.
Those are the colors that keep me sad and down.
Those are the same colors the government use in every police station.
Those are the same colors the government use in every courtroom.
Those are the same colors the government uses in the prison system.
This system was created unequally.
Highrise lowclass poverty property still rise in cash for the rich highclass.