• Down my street in the corner
    Is the little boy I walk to school every day
    He is so sweet I buy him a lollipop from the candy store

    One day he saw me crying
    He ran to my side and asked me
    "Are you ok?"

    I smiled my best smile at the sweet boy
    But he wasn’t convinced
    His little eyes searched my face confusingly

    Just as I got up to leave
    To ashamed to let him see me like this
    He flung his tiny arms around me and said
    “Are you crying because you don’t want to walk me to school anymore?”

    I looked at him and hugged him back
    “No” I said “I like walking you”
    “Then what’s hurting you” he asked

    He sounded so much like a grown up
    And for a second I wanted to tell him
    But his little bubbly eyes reminded me he was just a child

    I went to the store
    Holding his hand
    And bought him a lollipop

    While we were walking back home
    There was a drive by
    And they shot the boy in the chest

    Time of death 3:04
    The sweet little boy
    May he rest in peace


    I didn’t cry that day
    Or the next day
    Or the years before that
    I couldn’t let him see me cry

    I went to the store
    And bought the flavored lollipops he loved
    His favorite because they were my favorite

    Strawberry
    Apple
    Raspberry

    Every year I go back to that house
    Pretend to walk him to school
    And buy a lollipop

    As I walk back
    I can’t help but think
    Why didn’t’ a bullet hit me too

    I miss that sweet boy
    Our walks to school
    And the smile he used to give me