The Sick Generation

This is an older poem of mine, however it was well recieved then, and even more appropriate now.

The world stares at our generation

and says that for us there is no salvation.

The world looks at us and calls us sick

that we feed off of them like angry ticks.

Yet look what they have left us

wars, debt, all without any progress.

Fatherless homes, brothers dead

and mothers hunting for a crust of bread.

They say we are the young generation

the sick generation; driving the world to annihilation.

Its so laughable; we have been here but a few years

as they have been destroying it all with another can
of beer.

So who's the sick generation now, adults?

Go ahead and say we are lazy and produce no results

Do you honestly think that your better?

If so go ahead and wrap that lie around you like a sweater.

Yeah go ahead and say we are doomed

cause by your hatred you are consumed.

Cause we aren't sick as you would think

though we may be on the brink.

But its what you have made us to be

and our future we can guarantee.

Sick you think us; but we won't break

for we will bend and avoid your mistake.

Reviews

[DreyaArt]

Beautiful very powerful. I understand it completely, as a young person I m constantly being stereotyped to be something I m not. Like, one time, I was at work and I was tired because I hadnt slept well and an elderly couple gave me a disgusted look and said "maybe if you didnt party and drink so much, you wouldnt be so tired." Little did they know that I dont drink and have never partied in my life. Stereotypes suck. Im glad you wrote this poem.

[Sanctuary Dementia]

Hahaha thank you very much, how amazing that would of been. Again thank you.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Well now, how Po and Shelly and Peter's would have loved to dissect your working. Full of emotion and almost burlesque intention towards something of your own. well done