My handheld device
Shows me a glimpse
Glimpse of a rebellion
By GenZ and Gen Alphas
Our youngsters are on edge
They are tired of hope
Hope for a better tomorrow
Of which there are no signs
They know
Action speaks louder than
All the words and rhetoric
To ensure a better future
The best way is to show up!!
With climate dystopia
Temperatures rising
And Wars raging
There is indeed no hope in sight!!
Youths are doing
What youths do the best
They are rebelling
Asking for a systemic change
They are dreamers
Left with only nightmares
They are out on streets
To reclaim their dreams
Dreams of a better future
A better safe tomorrow
Afterall it is their future
Being gambled away
By senile politicians and greedy oligarchs
Young protestors are seeking
Accountability –
Who is responsible?
Who plundered it all?
Why isn’t education a priority ?
While defense budget is?
What are you defending?
If not the lives of youngsters?
Sending them to war fronts
For wars of not their making
Leaving them stranded in life
With AI enabled devices
(Which too predict only dystopia)
The pretense is over
They know no one cares
No one thinks of them
Their safety, their education
And their future
With a miniscule education budget
And crumbling infrastructures
And no teachers
They are learning faster on streets
The lessons of life and history
They need no textbooks or classrooms
To understand misplaced priorities
Are we at the tipping point?
That rare historic epoch?
Revolution isn’t being televised
It is being livestreamed
Every regressive action
Is on record and on camera
Heartless political machinery
Turning cities into militarised zones
Waging war against its own youth
Such a deplorable shame!!
While the rebellion is spreading
Like a wildfire
All world leaders have turned
Blind, deaf and mute
Hoping perhaps for the rebellion
To lose its momentum
Such a lapse of judgement
No one learns from history
(Hence the history repeats)
Time and again
Our children teach us
Courage and empathy
While we build a pretty facade of a home
And a farce of a life for them!
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