Renee LaBonte-Jones

 “Weary”

 When does old-fashioned become tradition,

         and when does out-of-date become charming?

When does classic become obsolete,
        and when does old become ineffectual?

When does inexperience become opportunity,
        and when does youth become hindrance?

When does an explanation become an excuse,
        and when does a lens become a bias?

How can you live during every societal revolution of the last fifty-plus-years,
        and still blame your bigotry on you being from a different time?

How can you boast about having lived, really lived,
        and in all those years, still have learned nothing?