Our children live in interesting times.  It’s a blessing and a curse.  As a father, I think it’s my duty to try to teach my daughters to look for the positive and the good and to seek solutions instead of seeing only concerns and problems.  Still, I would be amiss if I didn’t see the angst this world must cause.

The Angst of Generation Z
by Michael Romani

For me, Generation X had enough complexity
But, what can one say for Generation Z
There in all of the scandals openly spoken
Is that the whole of the system is broken

Obsessing over the specter of the future
Is the ghost of a chance on might nurture
Any sense of meaning out of adolescent anxiety
For the weary ranks facing relentless superficiality

Restrained by sanity, some form a bubble
In doing their best to stay out of trouble
But in doing so, they put into deference
All of the many things needed to experience

In turn from moments of sadness and anarchy
To quieter shades of simple integrity
The curse of living in interesting times
Is the drive by motion of emotional rhymes

Found in words better less said
And unconventional thoughts in the head
That lead to the feelings of growing older
In the heat of so many passions that smolder

(c) May 26, 2019   Michael Romani
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