Poem:Don’t Blame the Children

Don’t blame the children when they are foundDrinking and gambling and running around If by their conduct they bring you shame, Is it the children or the parents to blame?Where are your children, your pride and joy?Where is your girl and where is your boy?If by their conduct they bring you shame,Is it the children or the parents to blame?We read in the papers and hear on the airOf killing and stealing, and crime everywhereWe sigh and we say as we notice a trend ”Man this younger generation, when will it end?”Too much money to spend, too much idle time, Too many movies of passion and crime, Too many books not fit to be read, Too much evil in what they hear said.Too many children encouraged to roam By too many parents that won’t stay at home. The kids don’t make the liquor, they don’t buy the cars,They don’t sell the drugs the first time that idle the brainIt’s done by us older folk greedy for gain Delinquent teenagers o’ how we condemn The sins of a nation and blame it on them By the rule of the blameless the good book makes known Who is among us to cast the first stone?