Life Ain't Easy

in #poetry9 years ago

I look out my window watching the children play

I remember when that's all I had to do all the day

Now I sit at my computer competing for work

From my crappy apartment in Upper New York

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Children may wish they could skip their adolescent years

They think life will be easy, they won't have no fears

But we know life will give them a swift kick in the pants

They will need to fight for a spot to have a good chance

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It's up to the adults of the world to make them see

That anything worth having you don't get for free

Teach them about integrity, about honesty and such

That way when they do fail it won't hurt them so much

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Youth is wasted on the young and wisdom on the old. This is a great poem with a great message.

Just what I was going for. The old need to try their best to pass that wisdom on to the younger generation.

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