YOLO

• Alanis Little, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2013

You say you only live once
So you laugh and be a dunce
You throw yourself into fights
Forget what's wrong or what’s right
Get drunk and act all tough
Can’t tell when’s enough enough
You throw all your dreams away
YOLO you will all say
You forget what it all means
You go along in a dream
One day you’ll wake up and find
You left yourself behind
While you scab off mum and dad
You’ll look around, see what you could have had
Families, jobs and dreams
If you had kept yourself clean