Generation East

I'm not a label – I'm a person

I'm here to teach you all a lesson

You think I get wasted every night

You think I live for the gang fight

Innocent young lives taken by the knife

What a waste of human life

Nobody living past sixty – five

Teenagers having babies in order to survive

What do you see when you look at me?

A murderer or a junkie.....

I don't want to be labeled – I want to be free!

Don't judge me by my shirt or where I'm fae – judge me!

By Inner East End YouthBank (Glasgow)

July 2008