Jonylah Forever

You live
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 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
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 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
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 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