Generation X? Poem by Laurence Overmire

Generation X?



The young must believe
The possibility of the near impossible
Ideals to lead a better world

If cynicism and defeat
Consume the young, years before the making
The future is, without contest

Lost.


(Previously published in Infinite Race, August 2000)

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