So I was at the park today with family, a little grill and chill. It was the same park that one of my friend's ashes were buried with a tree in his honor, Nikko. Good guy, I didn't hang out with him that much, or get to ever really truly know him like others but I could tell you he is one of those guys that would just make an impression regardless.
In June of '08, he was shot and killed, wrong place and wrong time deal. And just like that it was over. That sparked the beginning of Cosmpolitician, a song about losing people you love because of what is going on in the US, it also has relations with the war and all that bullshit.
The part where there is a specific reference goes like this,
"like a politician who cheats and lies, no rules so wrong innocence dies, Nikko we called him he had the most beautiful eyes......"
Well at the park today his mom, Connie, was there too, odd the way it worked out. I told her about the song, and the show I managed to put on for him to raise money and all that. It was a moving moment, almost 3 years later. It is strange how somethings just hit us like that out of the blue.
A bit later she left and I noticed some kids looking at the tree, playing with the ribbons and shit. I was thinking to myself, where the fuck are your parents? No one was watching them while they were at the park! ARG, you don't understand what that tree, the ribbons, the notes, all of it and what it means.
You parents who just let their kids do whatever they want, get a grip on them. If I wasn't the decent person that I am now, I surely would have done something.
Nikko, god rest your soul brotha.....
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