Examination Of Youth (Blitz Poem)

Earn a life
Earn your raise
Raise a child
Raise your hand

Hand of hope
Hand of fate
Fate is cruel
Fate is no fool

Fool yourself
Fool the crowd
Crowd is haughty
Crowd is proud

Proud to sweat squalidly
Proud to stand here in the sun
Sun slips down
Sun keeps nightly secrets

Secrets of the present
Secrets that keep generating
Generating emotion
Generating substance for void

Void of truth
Void of air
Air is precious
Air is sweet

Sweet dreams
Sweet nectar
Nectar of the gods
Nectar of men

Men in white suits
Men with clipboards
Clipboards keeping track
Clipboards saving thoughts

Thoughts of suicide
Thoughts of the future
Future looks bright
Future looks blinding

Blinding furnace light
Blinding lightning strike
Strike while you can
Strike with youth's bliss

Bliss is not ignorance
Bliss is a view
View looks so unsightly
View commands my gaze

Gaze into the distance
Gaze into your memory
Distance
Memory