By Leahnora Castillo
Made from the Westside with no love, but would’ve been smothered with it. 19 years of age would’ve been too young to handle so much love I hope you understand. What would we have done with you? Questions that’ll never get answered cross my mind every single day…
Made from the Westside with no love, your mother and father were products of this lifestyle. Oh, but how beautiful of a product you would’ve been. Made from the Westside with no love, but would’ve been smothered with it. A start of a brand new generation. A generation carrying on the same pride in where you come from. Maybe it was luck that both halves that made you came from the same corner of the Westside, 90291. What if it was meant to be? What if you continued our same mistakes tho? Would it have been worth it? A lot of what ifs cross my mind and that’s all any of my questions will ever be, what if…
Made from the Westside with no love, you were my rose growing from the cracks within my concrete. August 28, 2018 the day I found out you were barely beginning to bloom. I’m sorry every day that I didn’t get to let you finish blossoming into the rose you were meant to be; but see you were made from the Westside with no love… but oh the amount of love you would’ve been smothered with would’ve been infinite. Siempre seras mi rosa, my beautiful Westside angel. This is my letter to you…
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