Poem for Youth Alive!

By Marianne Williams

Marianne Williams, a Teens on Target Youth Leader, wrote this poem for Youth ALIVE! She performed it at Youth ALIVE!’s 20th Anniversary Celebration on November 10, 2011.

Poem for Youth Alive

They say anything is possible You must dream like you’ve never seen obstacles But that’s hard to obtain for all the young teens that’s been slain I pray the family enduring all this pain would look to God for all this distraught And be blessed from the demons fought But the hurt would last for more than a while I can only imagine how it feels to lose a child

I never stop seeing violence The only stopping they’ll do is for sirens No father in the homes so this generation is wildin’ Kids seeing mom taking care of her child Something they been seeing for a while Mothers or grandmothers get the credibility ‘Cause mothers and fathers couldn’t do it and grandma felt pity So their kids have to suffer, looking for acceptance from another male This would eventually fail Because young men are killing each other as they hate themselves And girls falling in the arms of a male because they made her melt See it’s times like that, that should make you really wonder Who the real image is and who the real fronters Will it ever slow up? People get older but they never grow up No, they’ll do their sons like their fathers did and never show up Our people free but our mind’s still in the chains People killing each other, the blood shedding’s a shame There’s another homicide in Oakland again

It’s okay to cry about, it’s just another episode of life So watch the whole season and there’s no reruns The devil is taking souls and there’s no refunds