They tell me to sit still.

I can't.

Fidgeting

Tinkering

Call it what you want but I'm listening

To every word you speak at me

Not to me, not these days

When you say we're addicted.

To what?

Technology?

Social media?

We're constantly on our phones,

Texting

Tweeting

Snapchat

Instagram

Facebook

We don't care about the world we live in,

All we care about are followers and likes.

Who made these platforms for addiction?

Was it the generation being hated for using them?

Or was it someone else?

Open your eyes,

There are bigger problems than social media.

As you read this

As you hear this

We are pumping toxic chemicals into the very air we breathe.

Entire forests are being destroyed.

Ice caps are shrinking.

But we're too lost in our social media to care.

You clearly think that

The teenagers in school,

Still too young to act for themselves

Must be the ones at fault.

Ask yourself:

Who owns those power plants?

Who’s cutting down the forests?

Who’s too ignorant to see the problems they're creating?

Definitely not the school kids.

In a few years, I will proudly present to you

Generation Z

We will recognize the problems that you created, and we will work to fix them.

But until then, stop blaming us

For what you've done.