Gen Z

Let's go over the ways you minimize me day in and day out. 
Let's start with your incredible need and desire to stare at cell phone screens for hours at a time and the arrogance with which you plan out your future, 
how you cut out the wealth of knowldege of those who know better into confetti as you laugh them away. 

The way your body language screams, 
speaking way more than your mouth, 
unable to use your ears to listen to anyone else, 
after all, 
nothing important happened until yopu got here. 

Ear buds, 
head down, 
no interaction to be found. 

No demands, 
don't ask me for anything, 
self esteem deflating.

Don't expect too much, 
don't expect anything to change, 
why does that strike you as strange? 

My failures don't belong to me, 
they did not originate from my faults,
or lack of attention. 

Any failure I have is because you did something wrong and let me down. 

(please stop expecting, since I have already done all I can.) 

Nothing impresses me, 
I am the center of the universe. 
Nothing is capable of holding me, 
I am beyond space and time.
My dreams are to big to explain. 

You have nothing to teach me since I already know enough. 

(nothing ever happened until we got here.) 

You can't possibly understand all I have going on, 
there is so much, 
you only add to my pressure, 
just be reasonable and see that the problem is not me.


T.S. Deary 

3/8/23 - 5/9/23