“Obtuse Degrees” Freeverse
I don’t want to see Me
In Gen Z
What I mean
Is being labeled:
Weak-willed;
Snowflake;
Entitled;
Nervous Nelly;
Etcetera.
What I mean
Is being told
Not to worry
When all of life
Is still to come
As if
My kid-worries were Sin
For considering what
Adults were doing.
Before the New Era
Code Reds were in-theory
Not Inevitable.
Young’ins must know
Ways and means
A to Z
So they said
But Millennials
Know better.
No One Left Behind
Left a lot of us out.
Standardization
Wrecks
Where are the checks
And balances
On standardized extremes?
We remember the Turn.
We were mandated to learn.
Why must they, too?
There’s sh*t Z needs to grow
And we know lots of it -
So why aren’t there Lots
Of options by now?
Incrementalism agrees
With Democracy!
So free -
Pick A or B!
There is time
For X, Y, and Z.
Where are the leaders
Where are the systems
Willing to work
Willing to listen?
It’s dismissive.
If Plan Z is on Me
I promise to try
To hear
To change
To rearrange
In order
To thrive.
You know -
Lots of alphabets
Have more than twenty-six
Letters
It festers
The Not-enoughness
Of Everything.
Dreaming isn’t about Achieving.
It’s about Conceiving
What’s Best For Me?
I’m prob’ly not alone
In thinking
We need more
Help.
Kids know the most
About how things Are.
We should see
Past the expressions
To discover what they mean,
What we need.
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