*~ the bright young things ~*

 *~ the bright young things ~* 

We are the bright young things

the successors to the rulers of the world

everything which went before

shall dim in glory before our story

the things we shall achieve

injustices set right

tyrants bring down

our time will be as theirs would be

as day is unto night

we are the passion seekers

gold truth drinkers

explorers after reason

all the world will discover

the glory of our season

all generations to follow

find our memory hallowed

for all we will achieve

remove the deception and greed

feed the world and to equality aspire

no child in poverty shall exist

all wrongs shall be right

diseases cross the world

no more shall blight it

a perfect utopia we will create

of love and peace without hate

an end to war

an end to famine

an end to so much more

and now it seems we have been and done

and nothing has from our efforts come

equality is still denied

babies are born to poverty

and from lack of aid they die

their are wars more confused than before

we defeated communism

pulled down the war

avoided conflict worldwide

toppled a dictator or two

tried to democratise lands and peoples

give them an alternative

to the evil medieval rules

which torture them and leave them poor

and we failed everywhere

so self aware our conscience pricked

evermore by the mistakes we did 

the things we leave are debt

a sense of exhausted despair

we do not pass the torch

we have cast it away

shall need to be another generation

who can raise it up on another day

see the ideals on peaks far

begin again the journey we did

to seek a world of commonsense and love

as we our crying eyes are hid.