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   Afterwards
Under your very eyes
You squandered what you
Should have handed down
To those following you.
We will look back in anger
At what you did and failed to do.

Those who have most care least.
You put your wealth before
Our well-being, your privilege
Before our rights.

There should be common ground
Between old and young, between
Those leaving and those coming
Into the world.

You are those kicking the can down the road.
You are those throwing reason to the wind.
Pretending not to see what needs to be done
And causing those least to blame
To suffer most.

We told you to step back from the edge.
But you preferred to watch the space remaining
Shrink from day to day and have left us
With the ghost of uncertainty
Rippling through our lives.