The legal drinking age is 21 And yet kids in high school still get drunk The legal drinking age is 21 And yet kids still drink because it’s “cool” or “fun” The legal drinking age is 21 And yet thousands of kids still die each year Every year People are disabling by enabling Teens that have lives Enabling, you give underage people (People that have lives) You give them easy access to alcohol You give them what they want No matter the consequences You don’t realize You don’t realize Or maybe you do You don’t just supply alcohol you supply addictions Disabling, you ruin lives With every bottle you ruin lives With every glass you ruin lives With every sip you ruin lives With every single drop you ruin a life
You take an unruly girl And you turn her into an addicted, hungry, craving, empty Monster You take a sister from her family You take a daughter from her parents Not just that you take a life
You know a drink can do this It’s a ship in a bottle and drinking is diving right over the edge Drowning your sorrows You might as well jump because there are rocks ahead You know the consequences of allowing alcohol access to your life It’s dominoes tipping and tumbling towards the end Spending your time with your only friend- a drink You know that it will **** That fiery drink boils in your blood Blazing, bubbling and blistering Like fire it burns every tie you have in your life You know it will change lives And you know that those lives will not change for the better
The legal drinking age is 21 And yet you give kids a way to ruin their lives The legal drinking age is 21 And yet you defy the laws put in place to better those lives The legal drinking age is 21
And yet you still spike the punch
I wrote this as a slam poem for my tenth grade creative writing class.