The silent youth, <br />Never speaking a word, <br />Jumping at movements, not sound, <br />And looking constantly glum, <br />Looking (forever) dumfounded- <br />When spoken to out loud. <br />Just machines- wired and programmed, <br />Technology as much part of Them <br />As to us are fingers and toes. <br />They are the generation with plugs- <br />In ears, mobile blocks in hands, <br />And live as the television watch Their eyes. <br />Now the generation of youth, <br />Silent to Our real life, <br />But leaders in the theirs, for, <br />We are not part of the Next…<br /><br />Melissa Coventry<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/generation-deaf/
