Last Breaths

It has been almost 5 years since I watched a boy die in Ybor city shot by the police, I can’t really talk much about the details because my life has pretty much been in distress since that day. I can’t get the image of those eyes looking to me for help and all I could do was lift my hands in prayer and pray to God that he repent of his sins so that he went to heaven. I walked him through prayer and there on the streets of Ybor I begged God loudly at that to take him to heaven. I was shocked at the disrespect the cops showed to this baby dying before my eyes. I looked to the cops to control the crowd to get them to back off to give the kid room to breathe but they did nothing to help control the crowd to give the kid room to breathe since he was dying of a lung wound. His lungs filled with blood and he began to cough up blood as his final breaths were taken. The crowd didn’t even seem to acknowledge the death of this boy as even being significant and like beasts hovered over the boy almost in glee. Like vultures sucking the life out of this boy while he was still alive. How horrible it must have been for this boy to witness for the last moments of his life the crowd disrespect his passing body. We made eye contact and I felt like I was present for him like no other person was present for him. Because I was calling out to him to stay present to stay with us to pray to God to have faith. I felt so helpless like no one could help me like the cops and paramedics weren’t making their best effort to save the boy because of his skin color. I left Ybor that night like I have never left Ybor. I never went back…. Until recently what struck me most about that night was how helpless I felt to help. There was nothing I could do, the cops wouldn’t even let me help. When they stopped chest compressions I offered to help, told them I had medical training I would pick up where they left off. I was in a panic to save this kid, when I couldn’t get near him. I claimed to God, begged him, I had faith that God would move a mountain for this kid, yet he still passed. Since that day I have feared for my life for what I saw. Slave no MORE, since that day really strange things have been happening. But I will not be intimidated any longer. We live in a society were corruption is evident and completely engulfs every grain around it. CHANGE!