Turn-Off's Of Our Time (20)

When we hear an adult
use the phrase 'The System'
when referring to one of the many policies
of just one government department among many,
as if that one policy stood for everything about the government,
then surely we are hearing the youth inside the adult.

In the phrase 'The System'
we are hearing the bitter memories
of a person who felt choice and wealth
turned against them, long after it happened.

Memories like these are more common than we like to think.