Smells Like Teen Spirit

What do you see when you look upon my generation?

Do you see the good? Do you see nothing but bad things?

Or perhaps, you see a mix of both?

Do you hold hope for us?

When I was a child I used to see teenagers walk the streets

I would think to myself one day I would join them

I would become someone.

Years later, I've come to realize

How reality twists our blurry vision.

I am a teenager, and I look at the youth of today.

I see corruption.

I smell destruction

I hear damnation

I can taste the change in the winds of the new generations after me.

Our generation has found a way

To corrupt purity that is music

Destroy the beauty of writing and poetry

In replace of something flashy with a dollar sign.

Love is tossed around like anyones business

There is no meaning anymore

Only words and how they sound.

When I think of Teen Spirit

I think of High School

I've been here for four FULL years

I've made countless friends

lost countless more

Drama like I had never dreamed of

Love like I had never imagined

Experiences that I never thought I'd be lucky enough to have

Four years of my life I can never take back.

They've taken me

Changed me

I will never be the same.

Yet,

When I leave.

You won't remember a thing about me.

Nothing will stand out.

There will be no flashbacks,

No reunions, no communication.

I will cease to exist to you.

There will be no legacy left behind.

Simply a name, and an empty space

For the next generation to fill in.

- Francis Frustration