The Evil That Kids Do

Yet again we turn on the TV And witness horrible scenes Of unparalleled violence, hatred and despair Two teenage boys Decide to kill all of their classmates Hold their school up Bombs waiting to destroy And the cry goes out throughout the land Why yet again this tragedy Why did such nice boys In a nice safe suburb Turn out to be some horrible evil creatures? The usual suspects are rounded up It's the culture, stupid cry the conservative voices No, it's the guns, cry the liberal pundits And we sit around and argue Knowing that there will be a next time And another time and time and time again What is the sickness in our souls That allows for this hatred to fester so Deep within the minds of our teenage killers Why do they act the way they do Is it just the mindless violence? That surrounds us all The pornographic display of violence That washes across us every day The 8, 000 murders we have seen By the time we are 18? Or is it simply That killers can easily Get the latest bang for their buck? We are all responsible here The negligent parents The overworked schools The TV and movie purveyors Of pornographic violence The gun dealers The gun makers The craven politicians Who think it is everyone’s god given right As a damn American To buy as much weaponry as possible To buy machine guns To protect themselves from other gun men Nothing will change Until we conflict the evil That lurks deep within each of us There will be another Columbine High School, another Sandy Hook Another Texas massacre, another Virginia Tech, another this and another that Soon enough Despite all of our efforts Despite any new laws There will be evil men Who want to shoot and kill Who have somehow lost Their essential humanity Lao Tze said The more laws there are The more criminals there will be More laws are not the answer For a law cannot make a sick soul whole We are all guilty here The TV and movie Pornographers of violence The parents and schools And most important our society itself For allowing our young to become Such evil creatures If Satan lives on He is laughing All the way to the proverbial bank If God lives on He is ruing the day He created Mankind And the carnage will go on and on and on Until the day emerges When we all proclaim Enough, no more The killing, hatred and violence Will stop No More will our youngsters Grow up to be such monsters That day will come soon enough