Focus (Brandy Goodman Poem #5)

We have all lost our focus

In the world we live today.

To busy worrying about the effect

When the cause should be on display.

Sexism, Racism and discrimination

Are all problems that’s true

But instead of placing blame

You should be asking “What did I do?”

“How am I a part of the problems

Society dwells on today?

What can I do to fix it?

How do I change my ways?”

The answer to all these questions,

Is one tiny little word

Kids are where our answers lie

You may think that idea absurd.

But really think about or kids

And the society in which we live.

They grow up thinking “It’s all Mine.”

So they say “Give it too me, Give it too me, Give.”

They grow up with absent parents

Who are too busy to teach

And when their caught doing wrong

We don’t explain we preach.

Or even worse we do nothing

No punishment will stick

Because we’re a bunch of cowards

Who don’t want to be seen as strict.

We want to be our kids friend

Not the one to law down the law,

And we tell them that they’re owed

That is a huge flaw.

No one is owed anything,

If you want it, it must be earned.

If we had taught them that

There’s be no riots or businesses being burned.

There may not exactly be peace,

But if taught wrong from right

Or told no instead of yes,

They wouldn’t be wounded at every slight.

The world has many problems,

But we’re too focused on our wants

To see through the awful haze

To the real problems out front.

We are failing our kids left and right

But it’s not too late to change.

Take stock of your life

And see what needs to be rearranged.

Talk to your kids and listen,

They have a lot to say.

We could turn the world around

In such a positive way.

Teach your kids to be better,

Teach them all you know,

Show them by living right,

TEACH them how to grow.