A Road Diverse lyrics

A road diverse to be taken

The time of constant growth

When parents seem invincible

Whether intended good or bad

In these moments long lasting

Instances leave permanent marks

Impressions that may be tools

For benevolence or violence

Those fleeting scenes scarring

That go unnoticed by offenders

May lead to lives compared, alien

Uninvolved 'til mad manifest by injury

The difference in a destiny

May be the patience and efforts

Those of a preceptor of right

A breath of goodness amidst bad

For their small acts, their words

May heal more souls than physicians

To thwart the maladies relentless

They are seraphim embodied here

Prisons and institutions full

Of those who have fallen 'tween cracks

In an impersonal society distant

That readily brings criticism, effortless

Lives are infringed, and ended

That in youth took the wrong road

The road diverse, uncertain

A path to freedom, to confinement

Graves are full and lives fettered

Forever to be, forever unaltered

At the cost of understanding shared

A consequence of assistance unrendered