Crime
In the city
It finds time
To plenty

It takes no pity
When it steals
Your pennies

It lies
In the cheats

It cheats in the lies

Eyes repeat
What it needs
To survive

In the streets

Crime eats
It devours greed
At the speed
Lust bleeds

I see it creep
And speak through teeth

In the cities
In every state
It breeds politicians
And news fake

Crime
In the deepest state of mind
In the city
In your lives

It climbs at a rate
Too high to take
When we find
It's committed
By the ones we've paid

Crime
Is something
We know

Won't ever go away