As a millennial, I know what it's like to be the generation in the middle. The older generations make their own mistakes and discuss our ignorance when we do the same. Then we look at the generation to come and we hope that we can leave them a world to prosper in and teach them how to give back to it. The thing is, our generation isn't the first to feel this way. It seems that every one before us have felt this "in the middle" feeling. So here is a poem to describe the stance of being that middle generation.

Here I am in the middle

Of ages Come and Gone

Here lies the destruction of those gone

And here lies the problems we should solve before more come

Yet I was not taught the issues here

Or how I was to contribute

I was only taught how to benefit myself

And problems of others - I haven't a clue

The pressure to be graded high

Was higher than moral points

And the problems of my people

I was taught to avoid

Oh sure I was willed to contribute

But to put my future first

Because without a predictable future

Fore mentioned future would be the worst

So here I am with eyes looking 'round

A burning world set before me

I think, "Have I let my fellow man down?"

"Is that why the Ones Gone abhor me?"

They said "Get ahead at any cost"

They said "Benefit you"

But now they speak of compassion I've lost

When they didn't give a clue

Can I change my path?

Make a difference for those to come?

Or will I have the same disdain and wrath

And have the same judging tongue?

The Ones Gone call us lazy

Saying we sit back to watch it burn

Then they call us crazy

When we strive for the change for which this world yearns

So if you're stuck in the middle

Which each generation will be

You are not the first to consider it a riddle

"How to correct the world 'correctly'"

But maybe yours is the generation

That can change what we have not

To save this world and nation

From the damage we have not stopped

My generation wishes you

Hope and success

Hope that we may teach you

How to hold up when put to the test

As we become the Generation Gone

And you see the Generation to Come

I hope you can teach the good of the Generation Gone

And all the world-saving we've done