Jonylah Forever

You live

How bout them bullets ain't slow you up

You ain't really die and we watched you grow up

At twelve months you took ya first steps

Awkwardly across the kitchen floor to your best

Your first breaths that we can call words

Were in ya fathers lap on November 23rd

And They were "live for me" and he did for you

Flipped to neutron and stayed inside the crib for you

And this commitment from ya father

Imparted a deep sense of value you'd forever harbor

And we were all so proud as we seen you gettin' smarter

And the bond grow deeper between a mother and a daughter

Cause you were not a martyr (you lived)

Find out, I was just a bad dream

Goodbye

At six you started reading whole books

At seven you knew how a brain looked

And could roughly describe all the different regions

Could tell when we were sick and even knew the reason

The world wasn't at peace

Gunfire every weekend

But you were hardly there

Cause you was always leaving

Field museum, planetarium, aquarium

You saw something special in that tank you were starin' in

And in those moments as a little

Girl you realized it was a bigger world

Bigger than the Southside

Bigger than Chicago

And you were bigger but still wanted on rims on ya car though

And big ass woofers in ya car door

So you could wang like ya daddy at the park eating sharks

Went to King where you were teased for being smart

Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art.

You swill live forever

Find out, I was just a bad dream

Neither ever, nor never, goodbye

Neither ever, nor never, goodbye

Neither

At sixteen is when you got you scholarship

At twenty-two is when you got ya doctorate

Even now it's kinda hard to believe

But ya father taught you work hard and achieve

And you complied

Accepted by every medical school you applied

But the coolest thing is when they

Offered you that high paying slot you replied

"They need me in the hood" and that's where you reside

Free clinic, nobody denied

And that's where you heard the shots and quickly ran outside

And saw a man and van and a bleeding baby in his hands

Fading fast but you knew she could survive

Did everything you could to keep this girl alive

Stabilized until the ambulance arrived

And In that moment where you gave your

Help, bet you didn't know that you saved yourself

Fold down your hands, give me a sign

Hooked on your lies

Lay down next to me, don't listen when I scream

Bury your doubts and fall asleep

Lord have mercy

You live forever

Lord have mercy