We are the Future

We are the future
with our spikes and chains,
our baggy pants,
And unused brains

We are the future
With our belly shirts,
Hooker boots,
In mini skirts

We are the future
with our torn up jeans,
our rude t-shirts,
Wearing diamond rings

We are the future
With our high dollar clothes,
our rap music,
Pink polished toes

We are the future
And our parents hope and pray
That we'll all grow out
Of this someday

By: Kansas Johnson 

-After reading several poems about the future, I connected with this the most, because I think poem is addressing teens. Teens in this generation don't realize that we are the future, because they are so busy caring about material things and their physical appearance that they can't seem to grow up and apprehend that we should stop focusing on how we look and notice what we have to do to change something in this world. Unfortunately, children/teenagers aren't the only whos doesn't notice this. There are so many people in this world who care too much about other things other then realizing the negative things around them. The way I look at it, as time goes by, generation after generation is becoming more and  more naive, because even when we're educated everyday to become something better then just looking good, we choose not to care. If the children don't consider changing, I doubt the future will improve from what we have now.