Youth Before Time

The Salad days of an author who should have learned better

If I was ten years younger,

in my youth in my late teens and early 20's.

I remember the upbeat happiness of music,

a new Millennium, youth and strength, and music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fzv-dbiJMM



How our impressions of a new world,

our style, our swing, our open minds to what

the world could be,

we saw the world as something that could be shaped,

something that would move with the times.



Who do we think we were?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YriinrRGug



Masters of our own fate?

We didn't want to make the mistakes of the Baby Boomers,

Not those many mistakes of our parents,

not us,

not Generation Y, or why?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKzXYK2hEws

We wanted to jump from roof top, to roof top,

not the phoney rejects that came before us,

we saw a world that could be improved,

not for profit, but to open the gaps,
 
we saw those moments of insanity,

what our grand fathers and mothers had seen,

the change was needed, we cast our votes,

we questioned motives,

saw past things,

as every generation must think.





And we needed our freedom,

our time with drugs and drink,

our innocence,

and our time to feel  sexy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5tKILoxrQ4


We thought and knew,

our world could be brought to light with compromise.



How could exprisson be bad?

How can you not feel a stir of emotions,

lust,

freedom,

truth,

happiness,

and those other restless feelings be so wrong?



Yes in my salad years I wanted a better world,

and we our on the way,

expressionism,

truth,

open eye's,

in my youth...............................................

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

something gets lost with age...we lose that momentum i guess...that vibrant need to make something happen that is our youth...

baby boomers...hippie freaks...we were and are that...but somehow the message got screwed up, the ideals burst at the seams of the bell bottomed beliefs we held...

and now...? we want something we can't get back.