Generation Gap That Snaps Poem by Louis Santhana

I a m too over-aged
for adventures and acrobatics
but, self-taught, learned, the best single-judge
always prudent and practical and of matured edge.

but I find myself so badly side-lined
by my sons, on the plea of generation wideness
a few tiny, immaterial, exterior physical changes
are quoted as reasons for our total rejections

Truth, discipline, duty, obedience and values
are the ‘standing orders' for all the ages
your petty life - span of fifty or eighty
cannot bestow in you the powers to alienate

The way the present generation grows and
the horrible foot-prints their descendants would follow
the civilization stands now in a dangerous cross-road
the actual countdown then begins for its TOTAL DOWNFALL.