Teenage Spring

Teenage Spring!
By L. Don Oliver

Your teenage spring,
is such a frightening thing,
when night never meets the day;
Sometimes you cry and cry,
no one can understand why,
or what you are trying to say;
Parents say don't you do,
what they did too,
when they were your age;
They think they know how,
just what to do now,
to write your future page;
They don't live in your time,
where answers are hard to find,
they can't ache the way you feel,
But parents do ache at night,
when you are far from their sight,
their worries they try to steel;
And the final sum,
their sleep will never come,
while you are still away;
No one knows the secret of,
this thing we call love,
but we "must" show it every day;