Deviance

Give not your life, my friend, to crime

For life is too divine

Do find some better things to do

A more lofty goal pursue.

Oh end the bloodshed in the schools

Obey and keep the rules

Preserve, my friend, your schoolmates life

And end the awful strife.

For crime is for the baser sorts

Not for men with human hearts

But beasts who human looks acquire

Whose instincts blood desire.

Sell not yourself my friend for naught

Your skills by evil bought

Why maim or leave a schoolmate dead

And not spread love and peace instead.

It will be better if you would

Obey the rules and practice good

For truth and goodness do exceed

The weight of every evil deed.

Just think of this my noble friend

Where would the chaos end?

And would the system not be flawed

If all men abhor the laws?

Be good my friend, choose otherwise

Make goodness now the prize

And set yourself the lofty goal

To acquire self-control.

Oh what a paradise life would be

If all could just agree

And when the times of conflict rise

We choose to compromise.

Do you not see what now I see

That love inspires glee

And those who would do help themselves

When their evil ways are shelved?

Virtue shall one day triumph

Over vice and all its junks

So why would you now squander time

In breaking rules and committing crimes.

Let none deceive you in this day

Or mislead you in the way

To pursue another’s ill or hurt

And take away his mirth.

What would it do for you my friend

If when you reach the end

You get from life a failing grade

For the troubles that you made?

Look at the vast array of fields

With such lustre and appeal

So why not in your space and time

Commit knowledge to your mind.

For in this life the wiser men

Seek knowledge as their friend

So seek it now while you’re at school

And don’t become a fool.

Oh let not history’s sacred page

This day record your rage

Instead, do this my noble friend

Do good until life ends.

Youth-man forsake the guns and knives

And redirect your drives

And all your other youthful rage

To pursue and gain great grades.

Give time a positive gift to keep

Not something base or cheap

A lifetime full of noble deeds

Is what your school and country need.