Then You're Gone

This is a Shakespearean sonnet about raising children.

Do you want to go to prison for life?
Keep acting like Tough-Actin' Tanactin
Do you want to go where there's none but Strife?
Keep acting like my words aren't connecting

You only live your life once, then you're gone
So live your life to full, and live it well
If you think you're coming back, you are wrong
For sex and drugs, as one, are one's true hell

Your parents won't be around, nor your kids
So, lots of time to think, and hope, and sleep
Parenting is not like taking a whiz
So if you want your kids to win, go deep.

I just want to let you know, my friendly
Your strapping child just bought a new Bentley