Saving Friends From Drugs

• Amy Hume, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2007

You hang out with the wrong crowd,
Listen to your parents or they won't be proud.
If you are caught you will be in disgrace,
Look at the shocking expression on your mother's face.
You are now in trouble,
Got the police against your will,
You take off high,
Behind the car's steering wheel.
You end up dead in the middle of the street,
What do police say when they and the parents meet?
At the funeral the tears dripping from relatives eyes,
The truth in those tears shall not lie.
I thought my son was a good boy,
Well I trusted him, what do you expect?
Parents don't know that their child could be next!