Generation Divide V

Fiction has a way
of describing our
relationship with
generations, too.
Anakin to Luke
comprised two
generations, indeed
two eras, but again,
that was set in
the past. In the
future, Kirk to
Picard had a distance
of the better part
of a century, and
both captains
managed to almost
completely dominate
their eras, even as
they were pointedly
marked as generations.
When they met, Kirk
met his final fate,
and what was recently
described as an
illustration of
his legacy was framed
in two words: "Oh my..."

Wizardry might be
divided in three
generations:
Dumbledore to Voldemort
to Harry's family,
though the whole saga
might be understood
best all linked together.
The Justice Society
and the Invaders
marked out WWII times,
though their successors
are forever pegged
in whatever becomes
the modern age, because
creators didn't really
become inspired
until they created
the second generations,
the persisting era,
which everyone may be
agreeing can just about
subside, with the death
of Steve Rogers, the bridge
between traditions.

Times like these,
only Robert Langdon
can unite readers
outside Hogwarts,
but his movie can't,
times like these,
the Columbine Generation,
the 9/11 world where
only America and
the last man in the room
can be bold enough
to envision change,
can look past
"what's well enough alone"
to see things should
and can be improved
not just kept in stasis,
but the new terrorists
breed in the old institutions,
convince us there's
no right to action,
just a will to power,
born into politics
for their own sake,
just out of tradition,
like a mindless march
where ideals are kept
but never lived up to,
promises made because
they sound good and
opposite of your enemies,
while the terror of knowing
persists, for anyone
to bother seeing,
to comprehend.

Ours is a generation
bred for war.

Oh my...