Impressionable Young Men

Look it through

Is big, is strong, is you

Mirror that reflects

Because so we are.


Man, manhood, manliness.



Fighting in the streets

(For what's wrong, what's right)

Drinking at the pubs

(Because we can, we can)

Flirting with the birds

(Just cause they got me blind)

Dreaming right and high.


This is me, this is us

What we are, so proud.


Youth is the gift

with which nature blessed me.


Innocent no yet naive.

Not needed yet wanted.

Neither perfect yet adored.


The world spins around us.

Youth, youth.

We're the It thing.


Even though at some point bruises won't go,

Well sir no one won't deny I lived fast and long.


Over mother, my team and brothers

b*****d you won't pass.


First piss of the month.

I'm invincible

Another shadow on the streets.

like any other dropout

humankind long ago created.


Generations will pass.

Time flies

Roles move forth and back

Yet in the inside essence remains the same:


I'm young, I'm beautiful and

   We are men.

   Young ones.

Impressionable young men.


...but honest

What is it?

Reviews

[Brandon]

This piece crawled into my ear, kicked in the door to where my brain hangs out...and slapped it in the face. Which is to say I loved it.

[Revolutionary]

Smooth.I love the youthful arrogance.The manly defience.The picture of realization that youth does not last forever.Might as well enjoy it before you are me

[Karina Longo]

Brett Anderson would be proud. I know it's a poem but it sounds slightly like a Suede/Pulp song and it's so witty. I love it.