Fighting Monsters
When
you go to fight a monster - watch the tail - but aim up
high,
For
if you kill the monster’s head, the rest will surely die.
There
are monsters all around us that we fight time and again;
Just
when we think we’ve beaten them, they raise their heads
again.
“Liquor
by the drink!” they cry, “It’s safe for all this way!”
Yet
I doubt the drunken driver would have brewed his own that
day.
It’s
so handy - so appealing - “Get your gas and gusto too!
Pop
it in you car and hope the cops don’t catch up with you!”
We
defeat them...but they come again, ‘til our arguments worn and
old;
(But
it’s just as true as ever); our opponents are young and
bold...
So
we let down just a little and the devil takes his cue;
A
crash on the highway reminds us of the things we didn’t
do.
And
the victims of the monster are in graves or put away -
Rehabilitated
and trained to fight the monster again one day.
So
few of them win, for the monster’s game is unfair and a lethal
lie,
As
statistic show in black and white, by the numbers of warriors who
die.
When
will we learn this battle is real? We must do all that can be
done!
For
the monster’s food is alive and beloved - the monster eats our
young!
So
a nation born for freedom decays from deep within,
Because
our future is our youth ... and they are steeped in sin.
Are
all the David’s polluted? Are all the Stephen’s smashed?
Where
are our Daniel’s and Joseph’s? Is everyone smoking hash?
Don’t
say it doesn’t matter, for history’s already changed;
Nobody
knows how one young life, world history might rearrange.
For
if Ike or Abe or Einstein had been buried in his youth -
If
Hitler or Lenin or Stalin had ... Can’t you see this
truth?
Oh,
God! Help us not to stay idle and watch as a monster
devours
The
young, the future America ; the land that used to be
ours!
Joan
Clifton
Costner
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