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You are born into a caring and happy home
With all of the love you could want
But then adolescence chills your bones
And an un-whole world you confront.

To fill the void do you:

Get in a premature sexual relationship with someone that your parents certainly won’t approve of?

Hang out with some “bad influence” friends that your parents certainly won’t approve of?

Your coupling builds on more and more sex
Making one another shout
But for lack of love you find you’re vexed
And for this: you want out.

Do you:

Abandon this relationship and dive head-first into another?

Decide that you need to spend more time with your “bad influence friends?”

Figure that it would be best if you spent some time alone?

Tempt fate?

Peer pressure pushes you on
Into a world of fast drugs and cars
In the mornings your friends are gone
And you don’t know where you are

Too late you decide:

You can get into a relationship where love can mend your life.

That you can’t remember anything and don’t want to

It would be best if you spent some time alone.

To tempt fate?

You spend some makeup and black clothes time
In the gothic dark with bedpost pew
Writing lurgid and clumsy rhymes
Claiming no one understands you

Bored and/or restless you:

Decide to try love again

Try and see if your friends have gotten any better

Figure it’s your parents that are repressing you and rebel against them

Wallow in your own misery some more.

Decide that its time to grow up and deal with the fact that life sucks sometimes

Tempt fate.

Pregnancy strikes!
You weren’t careful enough
Now you’re in deep kimchee
And life is getting rough

Do you:

Choose abortion?

Keep the kid?

One morning you don’t wake
And life is at its end
Too many drugs you did take
Sorry, game over friend.

You yell and shout and scream
It was their fault all along
Their insensitivity stole your dreams
Now you’re out the door and gone

Now you’re on your own. Do you:

Realize that you’ve been stupid and go back and apologize?

Strike out on your own, because you don’t need them anymore?

Calm, cool, and collected
You decide to see the fury through
Time passes and the haze disappears
Then you see that your parents always loved you.

Continue

Sorry and pissed at what life brings
You grab a razor and a note
The veins kissed slightly sting
The world becomes faded, remote.

The money is hard and your parents pissed
A visit to the clinic and the baby is gone
And something you never had is missed
But beyond suffering life goes on.

Do you:

Deal with this alone?

Go to your parents for help?

Try and find love again?

Suffer ignorance and hang out with your friends?

You end up stuck with a kid and spouse
Flipping burgers to make ends meet
Long gone is your planned mansion house
Success now only in dreams so sweet

Alas, it is over now
Past the adolescent pains
With a tempered respect for life
All the world is yours to gain.