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Jonylah Forever |
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How bout them bullets ain't slow you up |
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You ain't really die, we watched you grow up |
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At 12 months you took your first steps |
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Awkwardly across the kitchen floor to your best |
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Your first breaths that we can call words |
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In your father's lap on November 23rd |
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They were "live for me", and he did for you |
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Flipped to Neutron and stayed inside the crib for you |
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And this commitment from your father |
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Imparted a deep sense of value you forever harbor |
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And we were all so proud as we seen you getting smarter |
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And bond grow deeper between a mother and a daughter |
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But you were not a martyr |
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At six, you started reading whole books |
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At seven, you knew how a brain looked |
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And could roughly describe, all the different regions |
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Could tell when we was sick and even knew the reason |
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The world wasn't at peace, gunfire every weekend |
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But you were hardly there, cause you was always leaving |
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Field museum planetarium aquarium |
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You saw something special in that tank you were starin' in |
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And those moments as a little girl |
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You realized it was a bigger world |
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Bigger than the South Side, bigger than Chicago |
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You were bigger still wanted rims on your car, though |
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And big ass woofers in your car door |
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So you could wang like your daddy at the park eating sharks |
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Went to King where you were teased for being smart |
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Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art |
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You live forever |
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At sixteen is when you got your scholarship |
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At twenty-two is when you got your doctorate |
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Even now it's kind of hard to believe |
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But your father taught you work hard, and achieve |
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And you complied, accepted by every medical school you applied |
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But the coolest thing is when they offered you that high paying slot |
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You replied: "they need me in the hood" and that's where you reside |
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Free clinic, nobody denied |
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And that's where you heard the shots and quickly ran outside |
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And saw a man and a van and a bleeding baby in his hands |
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Fading fast, but you knew she could survive |
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Did everything you could to keep this girl alive |
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Stabilized until the ambulance arrived |
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And in that moment, where you gave your help |
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I bet you didn't know that you saved yourself |
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