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DEALING WITH ADDICTION |
I don't know how you feel. If you have kids or not.
Do you care for them dearly and love them a lot?
I know I would die for the ones I was blessed with.
I worry how addiction will see they are messed with.
I can't always be there enforcing my rule.
They're going to be tempted in life; prob'ly school.
Their going to make friends who I'll prob'ly object,
Regardless how much I have earned their respect.
It's referred to as peer pressure. That's my concern.
Their friends are all doing it. When is their turn?
I hope and I pray they will avoid its attraction.
Yet I'm aware of its potent distraction.
So I stay involved with them, much as I can.
I can't say I have the right method or plan.
All that I know is, there's kids it's destroyed,
And that is the thing that I want to avoid.
My kids are at risk. The inheritance link.
I know that some day they will probably drink.
I wish that they wouldn't, having walked in my shoes.
It scares me to think of them lighting that fuse.
If you, as a parent, have no fear of that,
You either are blessed or as blind as a bat.
You gave them their lives. You're responsible now
For keeping them clean and for showing them how.
I'll tell you right now, if you don't get involved,
You'll face a big problem you'll never get solved.
Take care of that child that's wearing your name.
If they fall to this curse, you can take most the blame.
That don't mean you're wrong, or have right to be mad.
It's still not too late to get close as a dad.
As a mom, maybe tenderness isn't your thing.
Yourself, you have suffered addiction's sharp sting.
Whatever the case, you can change as a mother.
Both you and your kids, in conjunction recover.
As parents it's time that we took firm control,
And give back to our kids, what it is Satan stole.