You Only Write Once

Little black boys and little black girls
Walking around with tight clothes and saggin' pants
Saying yolo
Doing Yolo things
Like drake said
You only live once
The anthem to the illiterate young ones
May the odds be in your favor
May the ODDS be in--
No the Odds are already in our favor..
Choosing guns ova books
Choosing crimes ova lives
Bang! Bang!
Their alarm clock to heaven
Or hell
Hell!
To its fullest aspect
Bang! bang!
Another citizen dead
Click! Click!
To all my homies
Who chose being booked
Instead of reading books
Bang! bang!
To my little sisters and my little brothers
Too young to testify to the harshness of reality
Click! click!
To the ones who was in the wrong place at the wrong time
who lost their life to gang violence a crucial crime.
To all these girls and boys
Not knowing right from wrong
Not knowing life untilt its all gone.
To the girls with the caked up make up
To scared to sleep because they don't know if they will ever wake up
Our little girls and boys
putting guns to their head
because they are to scared to dream
Kids selling dreams just to run from their nightmares
Life is un fair
Life is stingy
That's why,
I cherish the moment
when my hand hits paper
My words speaks death
But my heart speak passion
To be able to write this poem to tell u
This ain't how it has to be
You only live once
You don't have to write just that once
That's why,
I only write once
Just this once to speak the truth
But all it takes is once to save the youth....
Sincerely, Ovanni C.