Gen Z

Funny how history repeats itself. Like it or not this era we're in is going in the textbooks, written under the definition of infamy, used as a blueprint of what to avoid at all cost, the second "roaring 20s", the sequel where it really went to hell. A kind of apocalyptic serenity is all we know; the sky is falling and Chicken Little is putting out his lawn chair and lighting a cigarette. Both kettles in the office kitchen of politics have been stewing overnight and we're choking down the dregs of tea leaves and the cold, bitter coffee only someone's grandfather likes. We went from cleaning our rooms to cleaning our cities, picking up slack that's been building like plastic, racing time itself as we try to save it...in a flash drive? Or a file cabinet? Something for the next people who find our burnt out planet with the stragglers who are barely human to look at, to see what we became because we couldn't catch up to your mistakes? You say you have faith in us, that we have time enough, that we will right your wrongs. Alright, we'll save the world,

but we won't save you.

GertietheGremlin

VT

16 years old

More by GertietheGremlin

  • Escape

    With the curtains thrown wide 

    we see the world gray 

    and we know it's the fault of our own 

     

    Spent far too long 

    bearing crown, sword, and shield 

  • Pen Pal

    I write in pen

    to get comfortable with my mistakes

    to catch all my thoughts

    scatterbrained

    and fleeting

    pens scratch the itch to write

    better than any graphite

    the use of ink before pencils 

  • Where Life Begins

    I never thought I'd be 16

    nor thought the grass would still be green.

    At 5 I met my oldest friends

    who I still talk to now and then.

    At 6 and 7, all through 10

    Nostalgic blurs remain of them.