Questions For Today’s Youth Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

Why?
Passionless youth roam the streets
Their ears crowded by the blasting music
The fruits of the latest cellphone technology misplaced
Abused by the clueless youth with their big headphones
Their senses compromised by this display of ignorance
Their minds polluted by the senseless beats
That chokes out the flow of novel ideas
And the delicate 6th sense is totally switched off
Rendering their creative part of the brain useless

Why?
Gangs of youth parade the classrooms
Oblivious to the teachers before them
In their drug induced comatose stupidity
They fail to gather freshly baked knowledge
Choosing to revel in their hallucinatory creations
The proceeds of their “fashionable” hobbies
Senselessly destroying their future
Rendering them unfit to be leaders of tomorrow

Why?
A pack of youth choose to go astray
Criminal minds growing in their adolescent bodies
Mushrooming into gigantic weeds in their brains
Wiping away years of grooming by their loving parents
Chasing away the blossoming dreams in their young lives
They choose crime against the benevolent act of learning
Robbing people of their hard earned belongings
Slashing down their own time outside the penitentiary
A hollow prison cell awaits them with every passing day
Their future’s obituary written and sealed

Why?
A handful of youth completed the unforgiving race
Graduating from their laborious courses with difficulties
Having spent a lifetime at the university or college
Supplementing exam, their way of life
Victims of recurrent educational mishaps
Finally discharged to the world outside
Reveling in their newfound freedom
Partakes in idiotic road stunts
Unconcerned about their new found future
They carelessly wallow on the temptations of alcohol
Drinking and driving, their new hobby
Death becomes a matter of time