Streets of Blood
Lessons of Life Learned too late
“But mom, he said he was my friend.”
The youngblood stammered out as he
lay on the ground coughing up blood.
His mother, tried to comfort him as his
two sisters stood by crying, and hugging
each other.
“Why did this happen to my son, he was
a good kid?” Said the mother as she held
him close. A week later another teen was
gunned down. Two needless deaths that
did not have to happen.
The mother of the first teen, said that her
son began changing when he started
hanging, with some new friends. She
didn’t know at the time but her son had
began associating with gang members.
He thought the gang life was cool, and
never really thought the horrid violence
of that lifestyle was real, or that young
gang members would be used and
conned by the older members, Or that
one of his new gang friends would
shoot him, over flirting with a girlfriend.
Now amidst the sound of sirens, he lay
dying, and in his mind, his thoughts
flashed before him. Memories of the smiles
of his loved ones, and his once upon a time
school friends, who wanted nothing but the
best for him.
It was then he realized, that he had made a
very bad choice in life. His true friends were
the ones who wanted him to go to school, get
a career and be happy, not the ones who just
wanted to use him.
As the paramedics worked on him, he went into
cardiac arrest. Two weeks later he was buried,
and within the cold hard ground where his body
was placed. As the priest recited prayers for his
soul, “Only sixteen, and already dead.” Said the
priest.
A few blocks away, from the sadness and tears of
the funeral, some Chicano young bloods, talked
about how cool it would be to join a gang, and live
That lifestyle. But the truth about that lifestyle is
Way different.
The gang lifestyle has its price, alcohol and drug
addiction, senseless violence, jail, prison, sadness,
misery, poverty, disability and death. Also, the
loss of one’s true friends in life. Because, in the
gang lifestyle there is no such thing as true friends
and anyone can stab you in the back, betray you,
and sell you out!
Youngblood's need to know the Truth about
the gang lifestyle, because on this very day, a
mother may once more hold a dying son in
her arms.
Frank Solis Copyright 2022
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