Adult Children

Rolling necks and eyes

Raging hormones

Full of pride

All signs of adult children

Hot Cheetos and Takis

are essential to their diet

All their friends are doing it

so why can't they try it?

The mentality of  adult children

Left alone to fend for themselves

while mama is working or clubbing or texting or taking selfies

This is the plight of adult children

Public educators allow them to sleep

while life passes them by

grooming them for prison or the welfare line

Listen to the cries of adult children

Knowing every dance craze

but lack revelation

Doing anything for attention

Giving into temptation

This is the life of adult children

Can talk about sex

making babies galore

Since they ain't on t.v

Their lives they abhor

These are the thoughts of adult children

Adult children

I guess I was one

Helping take care of my sister instead of having fun

But

Mommy had to go to work

and 

Daddy lived far away

And until you become a parent

You'll never understand anyway

or at least

That's what they say

But 

I can thank mommy for something

She planted a seed called

RESPECT

and that little seed has outgrown the field of neglect

I can take pride that she worked from

Can't see in the morning

to

Can't see at night

And she made me go to school

and told me to do right

and although

we ain't have everything we wanted

we had everything we might need

Her drive gave me the wheels to succeed

Today I look upon

Adult Children

and tears well in my eyes

cause they have the inverse of my former

and still don't realize

that

All things can and do change

like the ocean's tide

And your attitude is always your untimely demise

Adult children think they know

but will never comprehend

that the best years of life happen when we humble ourselves 

and resolve to just be

Children