Perspective

With time, opportunity and
a vast horizon of attainment
before them, the young, whose
imagination festers with
the impatience of their years,
view the present gloomily;
their future disinterestedly;
the past with blithe indifference.

The tedium of being, the utter
boredom of inaction, the
strictures of discipline, the
misery of acquiring knowledge
and social stability grate
their tender sensibilities.

Resentment with stultified
rules, social mores, fuels
their dissatisfaction with the
orderly progression of their lives.
Direction and the formulaic values
of society decried, derided, denied
devalued beyond resuscitation.

The rigidity of the ego-denying
initiative-stifling sound contract
miseries their vision of a world
in reflection of their sensibilities
their imperative needs, their
generation's selective entitlements.