Why two? Read the first time and understand.
 ![image](https://img.esteem.ws/7hxjjir3ns.jpg)
I am part of the lost generation
And I refuse to believe that
I can change this world.
I understand, maybe it's shocking you, but
"Happiness is already inside you"
"It's a lie, really."
Money will make me happy
And at thirty I will tell my child that
He is not the most important thing in my life.
My boss will know that
My principles:
Job
More important than
A family
Listen to this:
For a long time
People live in families
But now

Society will never be the same as before
Experts tell me
In thirty years I will celebrate the decade of my divorce.
I do not believe that
I will live in a country that I myself will create.
In future
Destruction of nature will become the norm.
Nobody believes that
We will preserve our beautiful planet.
And of course
My generation has already been lost.
It is foolish to believe that
There is hope.

And now read the poem from the bottom up.

This "white verse" is read in both directions as a symbol of two opposite stories of the development of mankind. And that the script from the first reading does not become a reality, you need to choose a way back with completely different values.
My favourite family STEEMIT 🤗😶😊
 ![image](https://img.esteem.ws/nd96xy7nqc.jpg)
Times change, but the main, most important themes of poetry remain unchanged. Often, when reading Lermontov or Akhmatova, we are surprised to learn in a few lines our own feelings and experiences. And how many more examples of the connection of times can be found in the lyrics! Poetry seems to come into conflict with the popular statements that "people are not the same as before." In fact, at all times people of different countries were concerned about similar topics - the theme of love, the native country, the meaning of life, life values.

It can be confidently asserted that the theme of love is one of the central themes of the lyrics of most poets. Their pen describes this feeling from different points of view - and inexperienced, but dear to the heart, the first love, and passion, and despair, and hopeless unrequited love, and the bitterness of losing the beloved, and the feeling of the departure of love and the change of her other feelings. Who does not remember the famous Pushkin lines:

I loved you: love is still, perhaps,
In my heart I was not completely out;
But do not let it disturb you any more;
I do not want to sadden you with anything.

In Tyutchev we find lines about a completely different love - passionate, all-consuming:

And who in excess of sensations,
When the blood boils and gets cold,
I did not know your temptations -
Suicide and Love!

Why does the theme of love excite poets of different eras? Apparently, the fact is that creativity is almost always based on strong, vivid emotions, and what can be brighter, especially for a young man, than the happiness and bitterness of love? Love is associated with such a variety of feelings and emotions, that this topic is almost inexhaustible, and every poet is able to bring his own unique note to it.

Often excites poets and the theme of citizenship, patriotism. Remember the famous words of Ryleev: "I'm not a poet, but a citizen", or Nekrasov: "Therefore you can not be, / But a citizen must be." Why is it so important to be not just a poet? Why at all times has the excessive dissociation of the poet from life been condemned? It is obvious that a true poet should be associated with society, with his own epoch. In poetry, the "destiny of the poet" must be traced, so that they become true verses. Yes, writing on "high topics" is easier, but as we can easily see, in history there are mostly poets who are not indifferent to their time, living not only with their imagination, but also with the present.

In addition, at all times poetry reflected philosophical themes - for example, the theme of the transience of being, the meaning and values ​​of life. Pushkin reflects:

... years will fly by,
And how many of us can be seen here,
We all descend under the eternal vaults -
And someone's already close to an hour.

These themes are also very important for poetry. Traditionally, questions about the meaning of life or about eternal values ​​are the most difficult, almost insoluble, and poetry is a way to offer some solution. In addition, it is the verses that are perceived by many creative people as a symbol of eternal life, as the main thing that a person can leave as the supreme value and supreme right of the poet. Many believe that they will remain in the memory of the descendants because of the verses, and history knows many such cases.