The Mundane Challenged

 

I used to ridicule and scorn

the sedentary life style of the old

Their prosaic sense of out dated values

anaesthetized from the reality of life

I despised their lack of courage or endeavour

a fixation of themselves and their orbit

A self induced malaise consumed them

from mowing the lawn to washing the car

Concern for how others perceived them

to observe life from behind net curtains

Subject to the TV screen and absorbed

by its crap

A generation in the grip of inertia

with no vision or sense of hope or purpose

Some blamed the war

wanting nothing but normality and tranquility

To me it all tasted of defeatism

Yet through life´s cycles and wanderings

I am become one of them