Front Page News

The article in the newspaper

confirms that the reigns of power

will be handed on a platter

from the baby boomers

to Generation Y

Gen X

now and forever

the Jan Brady

of time

the awkward

middle child

Profiles of six

up and coming

Gen Y  about to turn  thirty

reveal a yawning mediocrity

I want to travel some more

I’m not ready to settle down

My friends are important to me

The minutiae of these

lives is not mediocre

to those living them

The yawning malaise

lies in the fact

that this is front page news

Are we so numbed

by warming and terror

catastrophe and technology

that we could not

find six up and coming Gen Y

with passion to burn

and desire in their eyes

for what may be possible?

This is no revolution

this is no overturn

this is a global reading of the will

from one generation to their offspring

Designed to anaesthetise

gloss over the damage done

the wrong turns took

Look!

You don’t even have to fight for it

The power’s yours

We’re off to spend our Super

Good luck with this thing called Planet Earth