'Where Do Your Responsibilities End? ' Poem by Linda Winchell

Where do your responsibilities end?
When your children are grown and gone?
Do you write them off as quickly as that?
And never to take them back?

We bring them into this world
And when they are taken out.
We seem to not want the responsibility
Of helping... or guiding any of them out.

We pawn them off on our society
We allow them to run the streets.
Not many parents... now willing to take
The time that's needed...or even make.

Then we complain about our crime rate and prisons
And the high taxes that we all now... for it pay.
When all it would have taken
Were a few hours out of any given day.

Babies now raising babies
Poverty and drugs everywhere....all around.
Is this where you thought of placing your children?
On the streets... and prisons where most are bound?

By: Linda Winchell
Copyright: 2009