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28th of June 1996.

The TV could be the worlds worst invention
Watching a channel I wish I never found
A name comes across the screen I assume its the same as all others
Till The show starts and I feel pain worse then ever.

A 17 year old boy Just out for a drive with his cousin
They stop at a convenience store not far from his home
where he Talks to girl he likes not knowing it'll cost him his life
and every time I think about it.
It hurts me more inside
To know a innocent boy lost his life because some girl lied

The panic they put his family through,
When the van drove away and the boy no one knew where he was.
Thinking he went hanging out with some bud's his cousin waited around.
2 days later they found the boy shot and laying outside on the ground.
because the Ransom could not be meet
The boy just barely alive told the police
of what had happened to him
When the boy died in surgery.
The man on the TV,
His father,
said to the world
That some where out there.
all thanks that girl
Was the man who took his sons life

And no one seems to understand why other people act like that man
Why others lie to hide what his girlfriend held inside.
Drug money that she owed.
an innocent boy who no one in the van really knew.
Yet I feel pain millions of miles away.
When I haven't even heard his name until today.

All I can say now is.
coldest day of
June
was the 28th
of 1996
An innocent boy
at convenience store
Not far from his home
A girl he kind of liked
caused that little boy to lose his life

I cant help but wounder
Where he is today
I cant help but wonder
What he would have went on to become
If he hadn't talked to that girl that day.
an Innocent boy.
Who did no wrong
but talked to a girl
He hadn't know for long
Another Angel Cries
Every time somewhere in the world
A child dies.

Author notes

This is one I wrote for a child 17 year old boy who passed away on July 16, 1996.
He was just starting his life.
And because someone lied it was taken from him
if he was alive today. He would be 30.

I was bothered by this since the day I saw it on TV. and It made me cry.
I had to get my thoughts out of my head. So I wrote a poem for him.

Here it is.

R.I.P Jaime Estrada
you died to young.

December 19th 1978 - July 16, 1996

you did nothing wrong. you didn't deserve to be killed.

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  • I don't know what the girl did and how this consisted of the young boy lying, perhaps she said he was her boyfriend? Anyway this is tragic and such a waste of life, even if it was on the TV it's rather harrowing and disturbing.

    • Wick
      June 9
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      nah. She was a drug dealer. was around his age. called him over to the van and told the people she was selling to him(when she wasnt. the cops found out she was using them herself) and so to get the money owed. her and her boyfriend kidnapped the boy. to prove to his family it was no joke. they boy was shot. and he died a month later from infection since his wound wasnt tended to for over 24hrs.