The Youth

We are bold and brave,
fearless, intoxicating, majestic, unknown.

We are beyond your control,
We relinquish our bodies to the hands of others,
We give up our minds to the chemicals.

We are relentless,
strong, hardy, foolish, stubborn.

You can never understand why
We bruise our eyes
And scar our knuckles.

We are a nation,
a solitary mass,
one single entity,
pulsating, thriving
as one sole unit.

We are powerful,
headstrong, fierce, frightening, magnificent

And naked.
We are hips,
thighs, lips, eyes.

We are lusty and prone,
knees, toes, ankles, noses, ears, stomachs, fears, intestines. 

We are the newest set,
version two point oh.

We are progress,
steps, ideals, mindsets, actions.

We contain multitudes
plane crashes, gas leaks, landslides, sex, suicide bombers, hates, hungers, loves, losses, secrets, dreams, hangovers, school shootings, robberies, global warming.

We are large,
contradictions: bodies, souls, minds.

We are moments,
heartbeats, seconds, breaths.

We are sounds:
voices, shouts, cat calls, wolf whistles, words, numbers, threats, declaimations.

We are the future.