Generation Z

Unsettling
Like an uneven scale
Dysfunctional family
Or government

Unsettling the way we watch people suffer, thinking it'll never happen to us.
Unsettling the way we watch people attack their bodies with drugs, knives, words.

Unsettling the way we open our palms to the world as if to say "use me"
We close our eyes to reality as if to say "deceive me"
We turn our backs to humanity as if to say "behind me"

We take needles to our bodies and say "leave me"
We slaughter our babies because we want it easy
We say no child should have to live a life of poverty,
But each child deserves a life, so why are we killing?

We lay our tears upon each other with fake pity
We go in search of a future outside of reality
This is unsettling, the depravity
Of the world

Where are the people of the scripture?
It's unsettling how complacent we've become.
Slowly, the world is attacking our conscience.
And we stand by
Watching

This is the story of depravity.
The earth is 70% water and 69% of that is made up of tears, many not yet cried.

By the time they're born, children are already survivors of the womb.
There's a 50% chance that their parents will divorce before they turn 18.
14% of children will be placed in foster care.
Its no wonder that 30% of high schoolers never graduate-- how do you graduate from a broken system?

It's no wonder that they smoke, drink, do drugs, commit suicide, murder.
After all, their parents are doing it too.

It's unsettling the way they open their palms: "use me"
Close their eyes: "deceive me"
Turn their backs: "behind me"

These children are descendants of criminality
They aren't brought up in the ways of Christianity
In a time where we should drawing up strength, facing the greedy dragon, as if to say "try me"
Our next generation is a murderer, an addict, a thief.

Our next generation shouldn't come as a surprise.
Because their parents are doing it too.