Stop trusting the wishes that you make on shooting stars

Like the dinosaurs, they will only end in regret

Do not give your key to the first kind stranger who enters in

You’ll learn the frustration of changing all the locks

Spare not a shoulder when he comes to you weeping

Watch for vampire’s fangs that seek out your blood

Do not rest easy when the storm is calm

Outside the hurricane’s eye, destruction abounds

Doubt every sorry word he gives to pacify you

Unless you want to hear them again and again

Like the cyclist who drops his pedals on a steep hill

You are liable to crash if you lose your breaks

He is a wizard who claims change in his spells

But uses dark magic to beguile your feeble mind

Believe not the penitence he paints across his face

You will learn quickly, leopards never change their spots