Poetry: "The Rising Generation"

The Rising Generation

These children, born into a sheltered life

Their fathers overcome much strife

The sacrifice their fathers made

To see them grow up safe

These children, raised in peaceful bliss

Try to fight their father’s wish

Never forced to pull their weight

All work they’ve come to hate

The rising generation now has to sacrifice

Lessons that the fathers learned the sons are learning twice

When will these men and their children come to learn?

Each rising generation grows, trusts not his father’s word

These children look back with pained regret

Caught in humanity’s unseen net

Lessons learned by fathers past

They start to learn at last

The rising generation now has to sacrifice

Lessons that the fathers learned the sons are learning twice

When will these men and their children come to learn?

Each rising generation grows, trusts not his father’s word