Teach Your Children Well

He sat at the park well after dark

Moving his rook and his knight

A brown paper bag started to sag

With no place to go for the night

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His long overcoat kept himself warm

The Windy City true to its name

Holes in his shoes feeling the blues

He smiles and puts no one to blame

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Lost his job to the younger mob

Injured, received no sympathy

His severance pay was somehow delayed

Where's the planet's empathy?

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Yet the blue marble keeps spinning

Most losing, few winning

Finding out and getting out, surreal

He doesn't think of panning, future is waning

Life isn't a deal or no deal

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Why so many suffer, the rich need a buffer

Turn a blind eye to a visual reality

Skin color differs, the hands become stiffer

There's a difference between greedy and needy

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The world has created a monster

And left it to learn, it learns all on its own

A Frankenstein creature, a his and a her

Unjust and disgust to the bone

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Humankind is anything but kind

Locked doors and eight foot high fences

Breathe deep in your mind, hit the rewind

And dig yourself from selfish trenches

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Serve a soup kitchen, find what is missing

Teach your children and teach them well

Find life's passion teach them compassion

It's not too late to break from this Hell.

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What is our plan, to help our fellow man

To treat with sweet sincerity

Life is not chess, it's a state of duress

And man has nothing but his dignity

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So if you can help, support a lost cause

Hear the calling and answer the bell

You will see in the end, if you listen my friend

Your conscience will benefit as well.

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