Lost, These Days

Lost, These Days

“Oh, these kids these days.”
That old, well-worn phrase.

From every generation,
We hear this lamentation.

“This will not end well!
It’s all gone to hell!

The certainty of decline;
How we offend the divine.

But where’s the devil?
Not on our level.

Have we fallen below him?
Have we gone to black from dim?

Always, it’s the end,
Just around the bend.

Things have never been this bad;
Worse prospects, we’ve never had.

But what will become of us?
In the dark, so lost.
Will time damn or save us?
Are all our hopes lost?