Rise ( Urban)

Pictures

"Paint pictures of the memories and journeys we once had."

Dre

" Bina have you spoken to Donny?"

" Not in a minute, the last time I spoke to him he said he'll be here by Christmas "

" Aw man, when he comes down it's gonna be like old times" I let out a stifled laugh.

" Nah, he's all on his family man shit now Dre. That nigga talk about his kids like ever five minutes."

Sabina and Donny are fraternal twins. you would think that they were completely different just like most twins but not these two. Growing up they were the inseparable. You couldn't have the two without each other, or as Mama used to call them 'Frick and Frack'.

" What you mean? What's wrong with that? I'm tryna be like that too. I wouldn't mind bragging about a little me running around."

I throughly enjoyed the thought of Sabina running around trying to get control of our kid, or her being super pregnant walking around our house with one of my big T-shirts.

" You? with kids? I can't even pretend to imagine that."

" First of all... I love kids" I side-eyed her.

" That's not what you said when Tristan came over to visit" I rolled my eyes.

Tristan is one of the Bina's bad ass little cousin's, once I offered to babysit him. I never regretted a decision so much in my life.

" That's different, he was like satan's spawn. I actually really like kids. speaking of kids, you remember Sativa from high school?"

" Yeah? Your old girlfriend?"

" Yeah. we've been talking lately and she's been having a hard time and she asked if I could help her out somehow like with her son and stuff."

" And you did?"

" Yeah, When I was away she stayed at my crib. I gave her cash to take care of bills and shit and so she could take care of her son. You would've known but someone decided to block me."

I laughed at the way Bina rolled her eyes " you shouldn't of been a dick, but wait is that like your girl again or something?"

Sativa is no where close to being my girl again. I trust her and I wanted to help her out but Bina doesn't have to know that.

"I mean... she could be" I shrugged.

She look at me with unreadable expression on her face.

"What?"

" Nothing. Don't worry about it." She answered blankly. So I ain't say anything after that.

We honestly just sat there for about two hours just catching up. Well mostly Bina telling me what's been going on here.

She told me about that the Police finally got the guys that killed Dro. Apparently one of the dudes that used to sell with Dro dropped dry snitched to one of the cops. They had a whole trap house somewhere in Soundview.

" The police came and shut the whole shit down. I'm just fucking happy they finally caught them niggas"

I know that arrest meant a lot to her, as much she won't admit to anyone else losing Dro was one of the worst thing that could've happened to her. He was who she looked up too and i know it hurts for her to not have him here anymore.

" Me too. Dro ain't deserve that."

" I just want everything to be normal again. Our family, my life, friendships...everything."

" It is babygirl, I promise."

* Love

"You see the mission here is to maintain the friendship we currently have

Looking out at others who throw rocks in a house of glass

Paint pictures of the memories and journeys we once had

And watch the others wax paintings burn just like their dangerous past

And truthfully this right here could be the truth

Of the happiness we be looking for , we're the scouts and we recruit

Fuck a bigger kind of circle we don't fall off , no regroup

Now onto the obvious , I would take the metal bullet if a Kobe try to shoot

Cus I am the ride or die

Fuck the watery tear ducts , i give off good energy like the apple in my eye

I won't ever leave you dirty , what the fuck is a goodbye ..

Bina I...

Am really grateful to have you in my life"

I finally finished writing the poem i had done for Bina. I had been working on it on the plane back home from Italy but i couldn't piece together the right words to say how I felt.

I appreciated her as my friend— My bestfriend. I love her with all my heart but i wrote this to tell her that's it's deeper than friendship.

I know with Bina it's a hit or miss. I take my chance and tell her what's up or I completely miss and don't say anything at all, and honestly I'm completely fine with either outcome.

Just as long as she's in my life I will be fine.

Sorry for mistakes