Neighborhood (gentrification)

Come to my neighborhood

Build a Coffee shop and you don't invite me

We bring down the property value

A yoga studio go up

A smoothie shop too

The mom and pop soul food restaurant is gone now

The old movie theatre is a mere memory of youth

The house I grew up in

Has been torn down a shopping mall now sits on that land

Clean up the streets they say

My ancestors built these streets

Stolen from their land to build your America

Now you want my neighborhood too

In search of an exquisite image

The picture of my neighborhood may not be perfect