Another Hometown Tragedy

What are we teaching our children today
Are we trying to make everything ok
Do we push them in the directions they go
Or do we guide them in the right paths everyone must know
Small sponges our children rely on us for knowledge and protection
But terror and fear we allow them to live in with a fatherly rejection
Hard, is how they are raised and allowed to find guidance among friends
And eventually "just getting by" is their flight at all ends
So once again we must say goodbye to another one of our children cut short
Who's potential was endless and unfortunately found emptiness as a last resort
A collection of hollow promises and empty dreams
And now love ones weep the painful salty streams
Streams that could eventually dry and disappear
But why the world has to lose a wonderful kid, could never be clear
So a prayer goes out to everyone that is affected deeply in their heart
A prayer so that a town finds a way to fix the fact that their children are slowly falling apart