We are the young

We are the young,

The tainted,

The remorseless,

The mindless.

We seem to live our lives as pathetic beasts,

But our actions are merely interpretations:

These cigarette burns are what we've seen on you,

These broken livers are what we've stolen from you,

These car accidents are what we've been given by you,

You've made us who we are.

We've fucked up big,

We've slit our wrists,

We've drunk our way to happiness.

We've dried our eyes on your old clothes,

We've loved strangers just to have a hand to hold.

The scars we wear we treat as clothes - learnt a way to carry on,

Came out as gay,

We show our pain,

We are human beings.

No more society,

No more lies;

We won't make your mistakes,

For we are the Satanists.

We are the young,

The tainted,

The remorseless,

The mindless.

Just the way you've made us.

Author's Note

Just a quickie

Reviews

[Pickleby Davies]

Good lord this is amazing! I love the repetition of "you" in the second stanza, and I love the lines
"We are the young,
The tainted,
The remorseless,
The mindless.
Just the way you've made us"

It's sooo haunting. Love it. And you are also so right, we are the young and the screwed up but we are strong and tough as nails just like how the parents and society made us. Love it. PS I'm jealous because you live in London. Ever since I was 6 years old I have wanted to leave the US and move to London...I travel there every year and it is my favorite place in the world...urghh.