How about those college sons?

Don’t they tear at your heart though?

Don’t they bring out the worst in you?

Don’t they fire up the blood flow?

They are bored, nonplussed, and discontent,

While the universe spins unnoticed, closely by!

Listless to the chances of a lifetime,

They can bleed you emotionally dry.

And I was a teen age son once, see?

I put my Dad through hell.

I thought "I" had it all figured out,

I thought "I" had a story to tell. . .