When I see the young,
so innocent
so packed with promise
so prepared to take on
all the challenges of the world
I am stunned
silent
for a moment.

When I hear
these nubile youths
proclaiming their hope
for the future
expressing all that they so feverishly believe
pressing forward
knowing they can accomplish all that has yet been undone
I am exhausted.

I am enraged.
I am engorged with their temerity
and ridiculous faith
in their own non-existent abilities.
I am astonished how their parents
their teachers
their social media
has filled with with such inanity and claptrap
to so believe in themselves
when the elders
know so much better.

I have lived through too much now
to tolerate the exuberance of idiots.
Where there is freedom
there is foolishness.
When there is belief
there are butt heads.

Where there are the young
there you can see true idiocy.

Good luck, Class of Sixteen