Spine (90s Kids)

My heart bleeds
For the youth of today
90s kids carried no tracking device
In their pockets

No glowing slate
Powerful enough to guide a rocket home

Kids can’t dance like no one is watching
Because someone always is

Peer pressure didn’t disappear
It disguised itself behind a login

One wrong move
And the bull smashes
All the china
In the cyber café

We were blessed…
An era of disposable consciousness
Hard graft
Without recreational drug tests

Politics lived on the news
Not rammed down throats
Like religion from pews

Yes, I feel for the youth of today

“What’s your name
And what’re you on?”

Those days are long gone

Now over the hill
Down the slippery slope
Reminiscing about candles
That burned the brightest at both ends

But these days
There’s just too much to lose

Head first into the swell
Swimming against the current of time
Everything is heavier
Too much weight on the spine