Компьютоголикам. На англ

         To Computaholics
 
      Boys and girls, take this advice
      Even if you don't find it nice:

      Set yourselves IMPORTANT aims
      Instead of wasting precious days
      On stupefying shooting games
          On your computer!

      Don't dally, don't dilly!
      This pastime really makes you silly!

      Your smart young brain turns into wool,
      And you become - sorry! - almost fools!

      You badly sleep, forget to eat,
      Your muscles get flabby, for sports unfit.

      Absorbed in games for days on end
      You don't talk with Mom, Dad, friend,

      You hardly comb or wash your hair,
      You rarely walk in the open air -

      In short, you live like a useless bug
      Or a thoughtless, brainless, aimless  slug!

      Wake up without a grumbling sound
      And see at last what is around!

      Life offers such a wide rich choice!
      Here are the few things I can voice:

      To your creative force give vent
      And something new try to invent.

      Make up a verse, a song, a story -
      That it will eat your time, don't worry! -

      For you'll create a thing to live
      And joy to other people give.

      Or strain your brain and build a boat
      And make a trip on a water road.

      Or paint a picture (why not try?)
      Of something nice that caught your eye.

      You will insist that you can't  paint,
      Write songs or verses, or invent
      And build a boat, a car, a plane,
      That all your effors will be in vain...
   
      But how will you know what it's all about
      If you don't even TRY to find it out?

      Don't you wish at all you knew
      What talents God has given you?!