Generational change <br />wins always <br />because the old and middle-aged <br />develop a clouded lens <br />and can' t see Now <br />because focused on Yesterday. <br /> <br />Is good advice for Youth Now <br />consist of lessons learned yesterday, <br />when yesterday no longer exists? <br /> <br />Can we tell the Young that yesterday <br />is relevant <br />when all yesterday is dead and gone? <br /> <br />How can we council that the old views <br />and yesterday make sense <br />when conditions have so changed <br />have been rent, <br />mangled beyond <br />recognition? <br /> <br />Young people <br />as they must <br />absorb much from us, <br />but their capacities <br />and needs are so much greater <br />than our meager philosophies present. <br /> <br />For the first time in history <br />young people are smarter <br />than their elders who <br />barely know how a computer works. <br /> <br />First time in history the young <br />are wiser than the septuagenarians. <br /> <br />Generations are additive <br />and while all youth stands upon <br />our shoulders <br />it also means they can see further <br />than we <br />planted on the ground below. <br /> <br />We see ground level and the past- <br />they see above the clouds to that future-ness; <br />and we complain <br />because we know in our Youth <br />we did <br />exactly <br />the same thing <br />against our parents <br />who always thought <br />they too, <br />knew best.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/youth-always-wins/
