Why Can't We Be Tomorrow? Poem by Raj Dronamraju

Why can't we be tomorrow
Instead of dying the day after tomorrow

Such a short life span
Such a crippled future
Mayfly days of brief frenetic flight

They will throw us away
As soon as they think we are spent
And have nothing else to offer
What a waste!

Why can't we be tomorrow
Reinvention and renewal as personal responsibility
Rise and fall on your own efforts or lack of efforts

The perennially unhip left to expire on a mountaintop by their children
Preserved in page and not in amber

What a waste!
Old people enslaved in the promotion of youth culture
Maturity should promote itself as the answer for tomorrow