Increasingly young people are in need of support and protection

When a Country or Province is in need, America sends in soldiers

For our young people there is an urgent need for better education

Everyday, on their own they must deal with unsavory characters

Our children cannot and must not fight this destructive war, alone

Adults, take  lessons from 1600 Pa., Avenue and bring in the troops

Before long most of our young will be locked up or dead and gone

It will be too late for tears, excuses, blaming or just plain, “oops”

Am I speaking of soldiers with guns, tanks, and planes, of course not

Children need role models armed with knowledge, leadership and love

Becoming role models, it is something we seem to have all but forgot

Whatever it takes to carry our children from way below to way above

In spite of what you see on televisions, all soldiers do not shoot and kill

More than a few soldiers use their brains to win wars and save nations

We must come together because our young people have destines to fulfill

Instead of free meals in prisons, children need academic congratulations

What about it adults are we ready to put on our uniforms and go to war

Or are we going to be deserters and let the enemy destroy our children

With our children, adults no longer have an established, positive rapport

If children cannot rely on positive adults, it is thugs on whom they depend

We need good role models for all children, not just middle and upper class

A waitress or sanitation worker’s child is just as important as a Senator's

Support, proper teaching, encouragement and love, most children can surpass

Late, Great James Brown said, “Don’t Give Me Nothing. Open Up The Doors”

Need soldiers on the home front for children, “So They Can Get It Themselves”

Children belong to all of us because in America we are all Sisters and Brothers

We will never bring about the needed change if we only think of just ourselves

If you recall I started this poem by sharing with you four very important things,