In times like these,
We are asked to do the unforgivable
To keep our head straight
Take out the best things we know
And know that every part of our being
Our souls
Will one day collide with the universe
And when we just want to live
The darkness does catch up
The 7 blessing we ask for a day
Are no longer blessings their a curse
And when you think life can be normal
It isn't
A normal Thursday school in the morning and walking home
Normally takes me and sea more time to get home then the other kids
Cause we live on the edge of no where
We are about 2 miles out when we can smell something cooking
Like a fire is blazed
It isn't when we start to get closer
The smell is stronger
We start to run when all the sudden our hands are pulled back
Ma I standing there
Her eyes are glazed and she is cover in ash
She hugs us
And grabs us to walk through the woods no one says a word until baby S starts to cry
Sea grabs him and grabs the bottle from mamas bag
We sit down
Ma starts out slow
"I couldn't stop him
His anger was the best of him
He wasn't himself
Yelling about the seven he saw at the barber shop
Then he saw on in the store
When he rang up the food came out to 77 even
The four 7 are a way of god telling him to go home
But we had to move on from this place to many people know now
We had to change our names
Move forward with our lives
Burn it all he said
Take it all to the ground
Run with children
Live a different life
And he set himself a blaze
I couldn't save him
I had to run from the house we knew
We have to go before they find all the bodies
Or worse all the hints of the murders
We have to go now"
Ma jumps after she says all this
We get up and we just start to move
We walk to the nearest town called Lando Oaks
It's a small town but ma isn't waiting to stay here
She walks in the store
Buys dye, food, water and new clothes
She gets out the door and we walk to the next town night fall has come Ma makes her self look presentable to get a room.
She walks out walks us to the room makes us take our clothes off and burns them our side
Next she dyes all our hair black
Our new clothes are pants and shirts
And it makes me look like a boy
Ma doesn't say anything else but good night to us
She wakes us up before the sun makes the beds in the hotel room
And we keep walking for several days we kept going stopping and going.
Finally we ended up in a small place called Dahlonega, Georgia
Small not many people
And no one new who we were
Ma said we are no longer the hoe family
And there will be no killing till further notice
She looked us dead in the eye and told us we're nothing but some new city folks and getting there life back on track
Ya hear
Ma sounded terrified but scary all at once
We did as she said and there would be no killing
Not even a little