Everywhere we go my generation hears, ‘you are the future’
But how are you expecting us to be the future, if we learn by example
If we are supposed to learn by YOUR example
But your example is drilling for oil that will soon run out
Your example is sex offenders getting away without a charge
Your example is to throw tear gas at mothers
To let innocent children die
Just because they are different from us
We have heard them called ‘aliens’
But maybe we are the outsiders
We are creating a barrier
Between ourselves, and the world
But is the wall to keep other people out
Or us in
What is so dangerous about a little girl in flip flops
What kind of example is being set by discrimination
Just because they have different beliefs
Or love the same gender
Does that give you the right to judge them?
And what about when we are in the future
When we are adults, lost because you were too busy
Trying to get resources that we no longer have
Or trying so hard to stop immigration of fearful families
Instead of teaching us right from wrong
But instead we learned from the internet
From our siblings or from instagram
I guess that’s good though
Because you would be teaching us all the wrong things
But how are you expecting us to be the future, if we learn by example
If we are supposed to learn by YOUR example
But your example is drilling for oil that will soon run out
Your example is sex offenders getting away without a charge
Your example is to throw tear gas at mothers
To let innocent children die
Just because they are different from us
We have heard them called ‘aliens’
But maybe we are the outsiders
We are creating a barrier
Between ourselves, and the world
But is the wall to keep other people out
Or us in
What is so dangerous about a little girl in flip flops
What kind of example is being set by discrimination
Just because they have different beliefs
Or love the same gender
Does that give you the right to judge them?
And what about when we are in the future
When we are adults, lost because you were too busy
Trying to get resources that we no longer have
Or trying so hard to stop immigration of fearful families
Instead of teaching us right from wrong
But instead we learned from the internet
From our siblings or from instagram
I guess that’s good though
Because you would be teaching us all the wrong things
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