They are about to graduate.
They are about to get married.
They are kids. They are dumb.
All they know is they are innocent,
they would never hurt anybody.
I want to go up to them and say,
"Stop, don't do it.
She's the wrong woman,
he's the wrong man.
You are going to do things
you cannot imagine you would ever do.
You are going to do bad things
to children.
You are going to suffer
in ways you never heard of.
You are going to want to die. "
I want to go up to them there
in the late May sunlight and say it.
But I don't do it. I want to live.
in Into the Wild
