Poem: We are the Tired Generation

We are the tired generation

Not millennials

Not snowflakes

Not you damn kids

We are tired

Tired of being told we can't or we won't

Tired of being told we're wrong

Tired of being told we're unskilled

Tired of being the hopeless while being seen as the helpless

Tired of being told we killed this industry or that product

Tired of being told we're the ruin of this country

Tired of being unheard

When it was you who failed to teach

It was you who failed to lead

It was you who failed to train

It was you who failed to care

It was you who made us helpless and hopeless

We are the inheritors of a wrecked economy, drowning in debt and in hate

We were expected to do as you did without knowing that what you did doesn't work anymore

You tell us to grow up, take a stand, fight for what we want

But when we do, you tell use to sit down, be quite, mind the status quo

Now we say the status quo doesn't work for us

You fight us, fight for how it's always been done

Instead of listening to how we want to see our future, you tell us to live in your past

You had your chance to be teachers, instead you chose to be anchors

So now we say, sit down, listen, and learn from us

You've had your future, it is time for us to have ours

We are the tired generation

And we will rise