There is a saying of a child being a “chip off the old block”
That is the child is just like the parent. I have never come across this. In their book, “The Fourth Turning” Strauss and Howe describe their view of the changes with each generation. Its a good read but I have no way of knowing if it is all that accurate.
I writing narratives I have noted how kings are rarely like their parents. The move from one reign to the next can be a move from debauchery to morality.
Generations change
A child born of debauchery
Can be a faithful spouse.
Devoid of any lechery,
Head of a sober house.
Kinsmen can be like cheese and chalk,
Some rage and some will lust.
While some are quiet, some must talk,
Yet all go into dust.
Some generations loath excess,
There’d been so much of late.
Squandering brings nought but distress
And this gets blamed on “Fate”.
When war came that we wanted not,
Dictators forced our hand.
Some villains they would scheme and plot
Intent to grab more land.
At end they got crushed like a fly,
But that act though left its stain.
For good folk was oft hear to sigh:
Dark memories leave such pain.
So, men of peace who hate all war,
When they were forced to fight
Had fought so fiercely to secure
Peace by both main and might.
As generations turn about
There’s constancy in change.
Folk may be lost in clouds of doubt,
Old ways seem quaint and strange.
A child born in frugality
May well not faithful be.
Some tend towards sad lechery
But what will be will be!
© Trevor Morgan, 16/4/2018
Adapted From: “The Children of Gewis”