youth
Youth is dumb
Youth is reckless
Youth is wrong
It’s not a matter of opinion
But a matter of dominion
Every fold in a face
Is wisdom that cannot be erased
So to those smooth-skinned children
We say listen
Listen to the racists
Listen to the haters
Listen to the dictators
Just.
Listen.
Every time your mouth widens
Reel it in like the tide
And keep those gates from flooding
And keep it all in stride
No one cares
What youth has to say
Because youth doesn’t know
The price its words have to pay
Did youth ever ask
Why the wise man
Is always an old man
And not a young man
Did youth look at the news
And see the trouble it causes
How its reckless actions lead to piles
And piles and piles of rubble
Did youth look
At the rates of mortality and rape
Grandpa’s not the one raiding the streets
Looking for victims to turn into cheats
Youth thinks it knows
Better than the true and tried
Youth takes tradition
And turns to abolition
Youth should be locked up
In a cage with no key
Maybe then youth will learn
To shut its mouth and think of something other than “me”
Youth deserves to be beat
Into a being of submission
Maybe then youth will understand
The consequences of opposition
Youth should not get to make decisions
It lacks the right amount of precision
No one should listen to youth
In fact only an idiot would
Youth is dumb
Youth is reckless
Youth is young.
Youth is wrong.
