The infamous Homicide Tally currently stands at 108. Forty-two-year-old Charles Baldwin became the latest victim in West Philly Friday night, when he was hit in the face with a stray bullet. Baldwin was getting dressed for work inside his home on Pine Street near 58th, a couple blocks away from the headquarters of the 18th District and Southwest Detectives.

While Baldwin's murder might seem on the surface to be just the latest on a list that will likely grow much, much longer as the year progresses, the reality hit home to a young lady who also lives in West Philly.

Cierra Robbins, 21, said she lives just two blocks away from the scene of Baldwin's slaying. She watches the news every night and hears the eternal drumbeat of the rising murder rate in her own neighborhood. While most people her age are at a loss for words -- or worse yet, don't even care -- Robbins opted to write a poem, "What happens when it gets hot?"

"What happens when it gets hot?
Will someone else get shot with too many people on the block?
What happens when it gets hot?
January through April
over 100 already popped
Is life that meaningless that we can take it away?
They're not people, they're killers
cold blooded everyday.
Do i have to watch my little siblings
with bulletproff vests
or do i need protection to lay down & rest?"