teach your children well

we thought we could change the world,

a new society,

the great experiment,

we were different,

knew more, knew better,

we were the solution,

not the problem;

make love not war,

tune in, drop out,

hell no, we won’t go,

rebels with a cause,

defenders of the righteous,

a higher standard,

a new code;

instead we became

more of the same;

hypocrites within a world

of hypocrites,

masters of enlightenment

without light,

monsters disguised as

children of peace,

dogs licking up

their own vomit,

white-washed sepulchers,

dry bones,

sheep without a Shepard;

we fooled the world,

we fooled ourselves;

we became draft dodgers and activists,

poets and musicians,

stock brokers and analysts,

doctors and lawyers,

anything but our mothers and fathers;

we became consumers,

we became users,

we became takers;

we became the future;

we consumed until there was nothing

left to consume,

we took until there was nothing

left to take,

we used up what belonged

to our children,

we took what belonged

to our grandchildren,

but even that wasn’t enough,

we pointed our fingers,

we blamed the man,

we blamed the over thirty crowd,

only to realize we had become the man;

we were the over

thirty crowd;

it was all about us,

the ‘me’ generation,

gods of our

own making;

we taught our

children well;

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