Troubled Youth

Troubled Youth

By

James Bredin

Young criminals are these days referred to as “troubled youth”,
They like to wear hoods, hats, sun glasses, baggy pants, uncouth,
Seldom look you in the eye and they may indeed be high.
Have an angry ghetto attitude and all that implies.

Their unwed mothers, sisters, brothers and others live there too,
Seldom bothered with school when young or when they grew,
Living on crime and welfare with no fathers or husbands in sight,
A place of hidden guns, drugs, gangs, big money and fierce fights.

Their ambitions have been formed in this ghetto in great detail,
They know many friends who have been shot and even more in jail,
They have their own customs, culture, gangs, people and place,
Politically correct seldom look there or them in the face.

And within this closed-in culture they have great esteem,
Add that to the wishy washy soft-on-crime justice scheme,
Of multi culture, multi lingual and multi this and that,
While real Canadians are off in Afghanistan in combat.

And you are kept in the dark about what’s really going on,
As they’re in and out of court for bail or charges withdrawn,
Legal aid lawyers and social workers working on a case,
Hidden, completely hidden from the public eye in disgrace.

Saturday, September 9, 2006