Love When Young It Is Real Poem by James McLain

When your young
and the cops pull you over
you will take the rap.
For him and before the Judge
with you he will stand.
Every one makes
one or two serious mistakes.
Those that don't are just liars
and you being real
never relied on your rich daddy
to bail you out of jail.
If sicko Perce daddy hadn't abused you
and wouldn't have tried to leave
home but for that.
Yet
would Bonnie and Clyde
have stayed together
if they would have had no banks
to rob?
There are no harder trees
nor lovelier bushes filled with
green leaves
than that hormonal rush
young people in love will ever feel.