Shallow Waters

The young woman ambitious
Climbing the ladder high
Losing all friends in sight
She treads shallow waters

See the boy with his car
This boy-racer thinks he’s cool
Mr streetwise acts like a fool
He treads on shallow waters

See the girl who looks like a Barbie
A lost childhood she has
Seeing her cover-up looking sad
She treads on shallow waters

A man egged on to take drugs
A girl harassed to smoke
A boy forced to drink
Others their once clean spirits broke

All these are pushed
Shoved into a life by society
No direction do they have
Only what others expect them to be