Musings of an educator proctoring a PSAT

Our world is tanking -
financially, morally
reprehensible acts of knowing,
perpetrated on the suspicious ignorant.
those which cannot defend;
those who are called to defend;
suffering for those who won't
dying more each day.

Fighting wars,
wars they didn't start.
Systems they never belonged to
chained to their own reckoning
watching the boat sink

Unsavory apathetic youth
observe idly
conform and desist
thrusting their discontent
on those who seek to help them
Fighting not with what keeps them -
oppressed and ignorant
But with each other
unknowing of their power -
effective only in numbers.
Incapable of mobilizing
trapped in their own ignorance

Doing the dance
pushing back
wanting them angry enough
to react
create change
damage the status quo
dramatically transform
their world; our world
their futures