Is it safe to go out today?
                                            I need to go, I have bills to pay.

Scared to venture out alone,
                                            Scared to leave my son at home.

Is it safe to wander here?
                                            These streets are filled with hate and fear.

This is the time to be aware,
                                             that gunmen and danger lurk everywhere.

SUDDENLY,  A terrible sound!
and I feel my boy drop to the ground.
I pick him up and cradle him,
as his little world begins to dim.
A stray bullet struck him in his head,
and now my only child is dead.

So in that street we both now lay,
                                                         because I decided to go out today.