Poems Don’t Translate

I’ve learned that poems don’t translate through the generations

I can speak of family problems and not fitting in, my age group and younger get it
The older age group thinks that one can easily pack up and start a new

Like a new life is easy, like a new job is easy to find.
Back in the days of them jobs were plenty
Not so much anymore, but they don’t get it. Ninety percent of them stuck in those ways

Telling me that I’m forty so I should be able to do this thing on a whim

Since they no doubt done it back in there day

Guess when your refusing to learn, grow and understand nothing has changed
Must be a true culture shock for them to learn how life is now

When they keep referring to how things were back forty and fifty years ago

So many people these days don’t get the option of moving out
They don’t get the option of getting a place for themselves

But I know the older generation doesn’t see that, cause they don’t understand
They will put the blame on us for one reason or another

They will point out what we’re doing wrong in a heart beat

Telling we need to change our ways, they need to wake up, they need to see this day and age

S**t has changed, things aren’t like they were

You can’t loose your job in the morning, have a new one in the evening

You can’t walk into a place and say “let me rent it” and BOOM it’ll happen instantly

But the older generations don’t get that

They don’t understand how things have changed
They think everything is black and white
They think everything is cut and dry

They think everything is simple like it was back in the day when they were our age

None of them understand
Nor will they take the time to understand how things are

They will always refer to “well in my day”

That’s great and all, but it doesn’t matter when it comes to today

It’s like modern poetry, they won’t be able to relate, they think you can change a situation
Like turning on a light switch

Ain’t that easy, never is anymore

But they will never learn but they will argue with you all day and all night

Modern poetry doesn’t always translate with different generations

Ken