While sitting in a coffee shop contemplating life,
My mind began to trouble me with thoughts of toil and strife;
The pain of disillusionment; the lack of self esteem;
The kids who wander lonely, lost in worlds unknown, unseen.
How far we’ve come technologically; computer chips galore
Tell us all we need to know and probably much more.
We see ourselves as so advanced; a human race supreme,
Yet kids are killing kids today at rates which are obscene.
“Atrocity, atrocity!”
Words of shame we taunt.
“Those kids have everything today!
What more do they want?”
NO
Kids have much, much less today
than kids of long ago.
No one to tell them what to do
or say or how to grow.
No guidelines, rules, responsibilities,
Parents too busy
with work and stress
to deal with such as these.
Stability, security, responsible care and concern,
no part of their fragile, tender, young lives;
No childhood of innocence,
no time to learn;
We give them life then step away
and say, “My work is done,”
Then question youth alienation when
They ease their pain with a gun.
~ Jean Murray
