A Poem by C.J. Green
The Bible, you know the Book of Books about the King of Kings,
strange, it speaks some of the most truthful things.
even talks about the youth it seems,
showing a picture of a family in Luke 15.
About the 11th verse, shows a youth with foolish dreams,
left daddys house to pursue these things, but blew his means.
He needed to survive so he got this gig,
caught himself havin thoughts of stealing the slop from pigs,
He like yo,this is wretched.. I gotta stop this, kid!
The servants are livin better back at my Pops' crib!
So he humbly humbled his already humbled soul,
and practiced saying sorry all the way back to the fold.
...Or so the story's told, but the part that applies,
to us living today, cause youth are on the demise...
is the point that the time came when this guy checked himself and remembered,
Home, and it brought him right back to his center.
That same Book of Books I'm referring to mentions raising up a child,
in the way he should go... and he'll not depart from it, when he is old.
And also, foolishness is undoubtedly bound in the heart of a child,
but the rod of correction will take it out....
SO, is it safe to assume, that, currently no room is being made for the way a child should go,
or when it comes to correction, are we saying "no"?
Because if that foolishness is not removed, I wonder, does it mature,
into a deeper foolishness?
A severe case of stupidness?
And if we don't show the child the way he ought to go,
does he refuse to grow? No, I dont think so...
He grows anyway, he just get's his training from... Wherever.
I myself, don't want Wherever to train my child, never!
I don't even know them...
SO I will show them..Aye man, woman! Your kids, why don't you grow them,
instead of lettin Whoever, Whatever, create thoughts for them...
Example given, mother, who showed your son how to sag his pants to the back of his knee,
showing 3/4 of his walmart boxers you bought him last week?
Was it you? did you give him the technique to say to the pervs on the street,
Check me out MAN, come get it, fresh meat?! Was it you.... Mom?
Or father, were you the one who taught your daughter,
to model in the latrine like she was in a magazine, 14, one cheek resting on the sink? Did you Dad?
Probably not, but she took the shot, with the cell phone you bought and still pay for,
while dudes on the net, like "Bet! That's what it's made for!"
Cursin, hormones workin,
Can't wait till they see her, in person...
See what we're rehearsing, when we stop giving our children direction?
Oh, they'll do some off the wall, but at least it's not a reflection..
of what they learned, from their "protection",
and at least when they remember what they've learned,
"I have been foolish, gone astray, lost the way", ... they will have a center in which to return...
if not they are just waiting their turn,
in front of the big spinning wheel of jacked up stuff that can happen to a kid!
What will it land on? Before it do, put your hand on em!
To show them how to live, is the most important thing a parent can give, if you love... give..
