Hour 22, "Children Have Always Been Cruel..."

2023 Poetry Marathon, Hour 22

Hour 22

9/3/2023

 

A Prose Poem…

 

“Children Have Always Been Cruel…”

 

Children have always been cruel - they haven’t yet learned their humanity or the “accepted” behaviors of their generational society.  After they HAVE “learned”, they BECOME that society and their current cruelties are accepted as the norm standard to be taught to the next children as the new standard of accepted behaviors.  The previous generations are left to experience the new “accepted” behaviors and contemplate the “failures” of the previous moralities that no longer seem to matter to anyone but themselves… and life goes on - 'til it doesn’t.

 

Chris

(C) Chris Twyford 9/3/2023

 

Author's Note

Feel free.