You live forever

How 'bout them bullets ain't slow you up

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

At 12 months you took your first steps

Awkwardly across the kitchen floor to your best

Your first breaths that we can call words

You In your father's 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 your father

Imparted a deep sense of value you forever harbor

We were all so proud as we seen you getting smarter

And the bond grow deeper between a mother and a daughter

But you were not a martyr

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 was 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 South Side bigger than Chicago

You were bigger still wanted rims on your car though

And big a*s woofers in your car door

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

Went to King where you were teased for being smart

Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art

You 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 your scholarship

At twenty two is when you got your doctorate

Even now it's kind of hard to believe

But your 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 a 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

I 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