Little Girl With A Purpose

I see that little girl everyday
She always runs to wherever she's going
Xmas came and left her with a bike
Now she rides up & down the street
It seems she never gets tired
She always plays by herself
I saw her the other day standing with her bike next to all these other kids who were much older than she
She wasn't even paying attention to them
She was standing there because they were
The older ones were smoking and talking a bunch of loud mouthed shit
All at once she got on her bike and sped away like she had some important place to be
Today she's playing alone with a ball
She runs up and down the street chasing it as it bounces past the crack dealers hanging out in front of her apartment building
I wonder if she'll ever get out of this neighborhood without turning into some poverty case criminal fuck up
She probably won't
It's too bad
I've been here a long time and I've seen so many innocent children, turn into the environment
And it's not good
But right now...She's got more on the ball then those crack dealing scumbags ever will
Let's hope she keeps it that way for the rest of her life