The vanity of the ideal Youth.

Where has respect disappeared too?
I search everyday
Through youths with no manners
Who put teenagers to shame?

They talk of such nonsense
Vanity and blame
Hurt by their chores
Or boys with no brains.

Where to get drunk
Or who to victimise
Who is different?
Another loner to despise

Who’s proud to be unique?
Who’s proud to be ideal?
For ideal is of those
Who aim to please the crowds.

Follow as a sheep
Or make your own path
I choose to be strange
A loner and daft.

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Comments

yassin | May 5, 2010 - 15:52

i choose to be strange too, good poem.good luck

PipConn | May 5, 2010 - 16:27

Ta :)

P.Connelly

kheldar | May 5, 2010 - 21:46

I have spent my entire life as an outsider, your poem makes that seem so much more appealing.

A gritty poem that sums up a modern truth.

Kheldar :--)

PipConn | May 6, 2010 - 16:49

Well the difference in a person should be an interesting reason to be freinds with them, not a reason to abuse them :)
P.Connelly

darkenwolf | July 31, 2010 - 10:02

I've always been the outsider; tried to get in sometimes but it never seemed to take guess i should be happy where i am but the grass always looks greener from the other side even when it isn't
Brilliant stuff!