To Parents lyrics

No greater a responsibility

For such a long term to be

It is lifelong for all involved

No room for half-done

Heed my words and know

A parent must prepare them

The result to be permanent

Tears and regret heal none

When they come up, young

Their tools are within them

Hewn by fostering family

Without it, destresses grow

A youth goes into a world

Cold and unnurturing

No one says they're special

A world of many others

Most drastic is in warfare

For the results are final

Actions taken instinctively

Mean injury, life or death

Too many come ill prepared

Parents mistaking friendship

Their duties must be stern

To impart survival serious

Memorials cannot shout out

You left me unready, confused

Lost in an ungiving land so

Where others too must go

They that knew them weep

Or pander how it could be

That parents let them down

A truth that we must all see