I am 17

I have cocoa brown skin

I am your son, brother, cousin, friend

I was just on the phone with my girlfriend

There’s this man following me

I don’t know why

I only went to get some candy and an iced tea

It’s raining, so I have on a hoodie

Is he really that scared of me, that he has to stalk me?

This doesn’t seem right to me….

I’m just gonna keep moving, maybe he’ll just leave me be

Cause he can obviously see I’m not hurting anybody

Help! Can somebody please HELP!

Momma!! HELP!!!

Ma’am, can you tell me what’s going on?

I don’t know what’s going on, and I don’t want to go out there

But you guys need to get here quick

BOOM!!

Silence…….

There goes my life

Now I’m a statistic

Now I’m a number on a chart

But I wasn’t even doing anything wrong

I was just visiting my father

I might have done kid stuff

But did you really need to kill me?

Face down, on the ground

There goes my life

And you could probably care less.

They told you to leave me alone

But you hunted me down anyway

There goes my next birthday

There goes my prom

There goes my graduation

There goes the dreams I will never realize

Thank you Mr Neighborhood watchman

thank you for protecting me

Thank you for making sure

That I would make it home safe

Thank you for making sure

That no one would hurt me

Thank….*exhale*