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Old Generation Reincarnated

July 29, 2016
By queen.skeletor BRONZE, Valrico, Florida
queen.skeletor BRONZE, Valrico, Florida
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The lights under the laptop keys were our city skylines at night as we flew over the world wide web, catching flights from one website to another, the lights from our lamps as we read the quaint countryside homes who still had their lights on.

The headphones worth a hundred dollars each thudded as the loud music flowed into our ears like the fast and roaring traffic racing through the napping cities and slumbering towns

The bags under our eyes either represented friends and drinking and media or the luggage of depression, who decided to stop by for a visit.

Some viewed the old as oppressive and racist, others saw them as wise and helpful- they had simply been raised in a time where different things happened to be the social norm. And others still simply couldn’t find it in themselves to give a damn, now that it’s the twenty-first century.

We struggled to find the right words and blocked up our throat to keep the wrong words coming out, our unwanted sentences coming up through the cracks like smoke escaping from the burning buildings of our sympathy and niceties.

We labeled ourselves the New Generation because we didn’t know to label ourselves as Worthless or this world’s Saving Grace.

We stuffed our words and sentences and poems and essays and books and speeches full of metaphors and similes and lilting voices and changing expressions and the literary sleight of hand to disguise that we are scared, to give the impression that these people do not scare us and we don’t think of the end of the world on a daily basis, when the truth is our world already ended, it implodes upon itself every time there’s a shooting or a new terror or we simply witness cruelty and hatred.

We call ourselves the New Generation but really we are the Old Generation reincarnated, like the phoenix rising from the ashes of a destroyed world just to set fire to it again one day.


The author's comments:

Sorry but it was 3 am and I had to get stuff out


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on Aug. 13 2016 at 2:00 am
radicalchickster DIAMOND, Jericho, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"Never, ever, ever give up."

it's good. but it seems more opinionated and stereotypical than factual?

on Aug. 8 2016 at 9:44 pm
Lord.of.Words SILVER, Cupertino, California
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Favorite Quote:
"The harder you work, the luckier you get." -Gary Player

There's something so vague yet powerful about this piece. I love your descriptions.... Please check out some of my work? I would appreciate any feedback, thanks :)

on Aug. 8 2016 at 7:44 pm
queen.skeletor BRONZE, Valrico, Florida
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I didn't intend for that but now I'm rereading it I can definitely see what you mean! Oh well

on Aug. 8 2016 at 7:44 pm
queen.skeletor BRONZE, Valrico, Florida
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I didn't intend for that but now I'm rereading it I can definitely see what you mean! Oh well

on Aug. 8 2016 at 7:44 pm
queen.skeletor BRONZE, Valrico, Florida
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I didn't intend for that but now I'm rereading it I can definitely see what you mean! Oh well

Air568 BRONZE said...
on Aug. 8 2016 at 7:17 am
Air568 BRONZE, Vienna, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
The only thing to fear is fear itself.<br /> <br /> I have dreamed dreams no mortal has ever dared to dream.

Wow. This is really good. It seems like more of a book description but what do I know? lol. Nice job!