Do they know what they do
when a child's first born?
Or do they just play it by ear?

Should they pass off whats taught
to them by their lot?
Or spare him the pain that they lived?

Does he show her the world
and all that it has?
Or just place it on top of her head...

Does she teach him what aught
and what naught to be done?
Or leave him to learn from the pain.

Do they know what to do,
when the child's took away?
Will they fight or resign in the end.

Does he spare not the rod;
does he unknowingly rob
what time the child has in the end?

Is she coarse, is she curt?
Does she shatter self worth?
Is he left like a shell that's unfurled.

When they corrected mistakes,
were they gentle or firm?
Did they cower in fear far away.

Do they know what they do?
Do they live in the truth?
Do they care what's been left deep within.