Winter was once cold
A shield, a force field
A protector from rough Chicago summers
Where bullets find bodies
Now crimson ❄️ is this season
Because cold ❤️ ♥️ 💜 have steel gods
Piercing like ⚡️coursing through veins
We lost another student on the first day
The new year starts with murder
His college tuition already paid
I wonder who will get it now
His locker open, weeping hallways scream
There is no solace in Chicago
Taxes and crime rise
Young bodies fall like frigid temperatures
There’s so much good here, overshadowed
There so much hood here, mind baffled
An empty seat is amongst his advisory
A memorial entombed, artic classmates
They don’t think of school they think life
Will I live long enough in a gentrified city
That calculated my death in the 3rd grade
He never got to be a Toy-r-Us kid
Just a statistic, a generational curse
A lost tribe of colonized residuals
I’d pray but we know in Chicago
If winter is hot
Summer will be hell
Hope is deferred here
Winter is a blur
Sleep on Puma, find warmth in eternity
