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The Trial of the Brazen Boy

Inconsiderate Brazen Boy Who knows not what good to do You forget your manners Respectful to none but those with a gun And thus having broken all the rules Inconsiderate Brazen Boy Who in spite of a good mother’s love Shows no kindness, sympathy, nor compassion You follow not the Golden Rule she taught But seek only ill-gotten crimes of passion Inconsiderate Brazen Boy Thy callused heart strings untuned What innocence is left with in your breast What values have you for those that adored you Having their hope replaced by your dope Is this the life you envisioned Inconsiderate Brazen Boy Your once good name now vulgar Your pants hang low so your butt can show And you believe it’s sexy Inconsiderate Brazen Boy Death and violence amidst your comrades Will bring about your destruction Thy family of gang which kill, cheat, and steal You lay still in a red pool of clay as they mock you Inconsiderate Brazen Boy Stand before thy creator For your life for right you tossed for the left Only now do you weep for the Savior

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 5/4/2012 10:03:00 AM
Some kids are hard to reach and even when you feel that you have, they do not know how to change. I have had several former dtudents die or be killed, and each is sad and feels like a loss to me. Great poem. Thank you for sharing it.
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Date: 4/30/2012 5:18:00 AM
Well written Mark! - Have a lovely new week. - oxox Anne-Lise
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Mark Goodson
Date: 4/30/2012 6:30:00 AM
Thanks Anne. I wrote this in responce to a former student of mine years ago who resently died by a gang shooting. When he was a boy of 13, I had warned him of the seemingly life style he was headed for. The year after he graduated, he was arrested for selling dope. I went to visit him in jail- his face showed shame at my being there. After he was released, he went back to his old habits- now he is dead. I morned for his good mother whom had raised him God fearingly, but to no avail. A young life wasted on bad friends and passion. His name was Randy.

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