Jonylah Forever de Lupe Fiasco

How bout them bullets ain't slow you up
You ain't really die, we watched you grow up
At 12 months you took ya first steps
Awkwardly across the kitchen floor to your best
Your first breaths that we can call words
In ya fathers lap on November 23rd
They were "live for me" and he did for you
Flipped to neutron and stayed inside the crib for you
And this commitment from ya father imparted
a deep senese of value you forever harbor
And we were all so pround as we seen you gettin' smarter
And bond grow deeper between a mother and a daughter
You were not a martyr

At six you started reading books
At seven you knew how a brain looked
And could roughly describe the different regions
Could tell when somebody
was sick and even knew the reason
The world wasn't at peace
Gunfire every weekend
But you were hardly there
Cuz y'all was always leaving
Field museum planetarium aquarium
You saw something special
in that tank you were starin' in
And in those moments as
a little girl you realized there was a bigger world
Bigger than the South Side
Bigger than Chicago
And you were bigger still wanted on rims on ya car though
And big ass woofers in ya car door
So you could wang like ya daddy at the park eating sharks
Went to King where you were teased for being smart
Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art.

At 16 is when you got your scholarship
At 22 is when you got your doctorate
Even now it's hard to believe
But ya father taught you work hard and achieve
And you complied
Accepted by every medical school you applied
But the coolest thing is when they
offered you that high paying slot you replied
"They need me in the hood" and that's where you reside
Free clinic, nobody denied
And that's where you heard the shots and quickly ran outside
And saw a man and van and a bleeding baby in his hands
Fading fast but you knew she could survive
Did everything you could to keep this girl alive
Stabilized until the ambulance arrived
And in that moment where you gave your help,
I bet you didn't know that you saved yourself.