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Gang articlesGang Life: In The Words of Gang MembersSubmit Your Story About Street Gang Life here...UntitledI went and seen my niece cause my sister said she didn't know what to do. The big deal was my niece came home with a tattoo. She had the three dots and in the middle was a tear drop. My sister told me when she seen it her heart stopped. I walked up in her room and expected to see all her girlly posters and her girlly nick-nacks on her shelf. But instead I seen rags up and gang pictures all of the walls, but a picture of my sister, my homegirls and I is what caught me off guard most of all. I turned to look at my niece who's only 14, she didn't have her warm smile, but a cold stare that made her look mean. I sat down in front of her and told her to show me her hand. I asked her," You feel good now, just like that of a cow with a brand?" I told her to come with me and we went for a cruise. She was scared boy, she didn't know what to do. I took her to the cemetary, and I could see her fear. "This is where that tat will put you, for it will surely put you here." She turned to me"It didn't do it to you or my mom. How do you know it will do it to me. What you want me to die?" she asked with anger in her eyes. I took her to a whole row of graves and she asked me who they belonged to. I told her."If that teardrop don't kill you, it will for eternally make you cry. You see, all these tombstones hold the ones who had the same tear as you, it's what it will do. You see your mom and I , we were spared, but in many ways we too died, only difference was weren't buried, for our death is in the tears we cry." She didn't quiet understand me so I went on." You see Baby girl, it ain't all you think it's cracked up to be. It's a cruel, cruel world. You lose a piece of yourself when you lose someone you once held close. It ain't fair, but that's how life goes. Do you think just cause you joined the gang they got your back and won't let you die? If that was true then why gang-bangers droppin everyday like flies?" We walked back and she was quiet for a long time after. She looked at me and said,"what does it matter, we all end up dead. What's it matter if it happens later or now, it's gonna happen anyhow." I looked at her and told her," I agree. But it matters to the people who loves you. One day you'll understand, you'll see." That night I went home and I prayed. Prayed she would learn her lesson before the lesson got her, for her to understand what it's like to lose a person you love, as I have lost my brother to the one up above. Not too long after that I went and seen my niece cause my sister told me something happened. One of my nieces good friends got stabbed and was barely hanging on. I entered my nieces room and the first thing she said was,"You were right and i was wrong." Then I seen the tears trickle down her cheeks, then quickly wiped them off cause she didn't want to appear to be weak. She let everything out as I knew she would. I just held her hand and told her I understood. She came to live with me not long after that cause she didn't want to be down like before. She didn't wanna bang anymore. I pray this story helped somebody cause I know it saved my nieces life. There's was no reason for her to die. And I understand in some places you have to bang just to survive, but those who just wanna be down, don't do it cause you're gonna lose everything, including your life.. It's been a long time since I posted up in here...but I ain't quit writin..hope ya'll are doing well... Mz Froggy |