"SHATTERED SHADOWS OF YOUTHS" BY AJAKAYE STRIDA

Education extremely expensive to afford,

serious students silenced by poor pockets,

and wealthy homes filled with ignorant children,

negative environment taking the breath of dreams.

The driving force to succeed  cannot stand?

Patience and hard-work are threatened 

by the claws of connection and protocols.

Choice is lost, patience is wished afterwards.

Taking pictures outside or within new buildings,

eyes glued to chats and posts as babies and nipples,

do not lie to yourselves...

you have implicated technology.

Match sticks meet in the box

but the chosen light leaves to never return again.

Reigning generation is soaked in betrayal,

corruption born from hypocritic war in the heart.

Broken homes nagging days and nights,

the thoughts of offspring being darkened

with hatred, disappointment, conflicts...

incapable single parent releasing sucklings to the raw streets.

© RASHIDAT OLAMIDAYO AJAKAYE

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The poet persona uses fives stanzas to address the issues negatively affecting the present generation. These issues are poor environment, impatience, misuse of technology, hypocrisy and poor parenthood.