Today we have a generation of youth with access to information, but no instruction. They have the freedom to explore, yet are educated in a way that incarcerates their imagination and they lack the resources necessary to achieve. Further complicating the matter are society’s limited expectations, which permeate young minds preventing their limitless potential from ever taking flight. Additionally, a lack of understanding of what real success is continues to take root in the psyche of a generation that is so malleable and impressionable. The internet allows these youth to “touch” and “experience” life, despite the fact that most are stuck in real situations that don’t allow them to actually live. Telecommunications, television and temporary temptations take our undervalued young people on a wild ride that seems to be preparing them for future failure. Ultimately, they internalize images imagined in the minds of Hollywood executives who are only out for a profit… even if it comes at the price of a young child’s soul!
A Lost Generation caught up in the Game
The Media’s Mass Monotony promoting the same
Mainstream Propaganda Flow that makes it hard to stand up fo’
Anything of substance or go against the grain
The simple questions that I ask will often sound the same
Do you remember the “War On Drugs”…the youth who are lost to gangs?
Those future leaders caught in the cross fire of Gun Violence…
Do you remember the Names?
The fact is many youth who experiment with drugs do it for no other reason
Than just because they hear it in the music and see it in the streets…
It makes them want to try it when they watch it on the TV
Bombarded by these messages throughout their community
A LOST GENERATION
AT WAR EVERY DAY
ASKING
DOES ANYONE CARE ENOUGH TO FIGHT FOR ME?
A WARRIOR POET
GOING TO BATTLE EVERY DAY
ASKING
DOES ANYONE CARE ENOUGH TO FIGHT WITH ME!
By Shaka T. Barrett (Written June 18, 2013)
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