City with a view
Eyes set on new scenery
Pastures fed til reaching their greenest hues
As far as I can tell
This city feels big
Though I’ve lived in bigger
But I’ve lived in smaller too
I’ve felt even smaller still
But not here
Here I’m tall and lovely
That’s what the right destination can do
A city shaped like me
A city shaped like you
Traveling but not alone
Loved despite all the ways I’ve changed
The ways I’ve grown
Moving and always picking up speed
Picking up bruises
New worries
New dreams
Eyes set forward but blinders long gone
What I’m missing always whipping by
Deep into the corners of my eyes
Tucked into the corners of my mind
I’m here
That’s all I know
I’m here and I’ll do do anything to stay
In a city shaped like me
This city has a sound
In trains passing by
In the rattling of seats on the bus
In downtown arguments
In car horns and bike bells
In odd greetings and goodbyes
Even music fills the air sometimes
This city is always bathed in something
If not the sounds then light
In a feeling one might call home
This city is so new to me but I hear all the steps of others that came before me
Walking to the beat of their own drums
This city sounds like me
Or maybe I want to believe it does
If I belong somewhere just imagine all the things I could do
After all it’s a city shaped like me
And that’s a place I’ve always wanted to be
A city shaped like you