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The Seventh Generation
Gabriel Duncan

We are not just your seventh generation
We are not just your haunted past
We are the growing tormentors
That were made in your image
By the tormentors before

We are not just the glimmering future
We are not just here to make you comfortable in your old age
We are the over-sexed, ADD generation
With an I-Pod
And a pocket full of methadone

We are not just looming
We are not just fresh-faced and driven towards destruction
We are your exploited past
Come back to home to haunt you with our dying screams
As we push ourselves closer to the melt-down

We are not just a diagnosis
We are not just a statistic
We are the variables you ousted for the sake of "expediency"
We are you short-sighted, long-distance mistakes
And we are not just going to let you forget it

We are not just your seventh generation
We are not just your sleepy sheep
We are awake, finally
And pulling against the chains you shackled us to
Ever since you started marching towards your atomic sunset