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Poem written by Jordan PHOTO:Derek Nichols
A poem by a 14-year-old boy which was posted on Twitter by his older brother has gone viral – because it can also be read backwards.
And amazingly when the verse is read again starting with the last line, it has a completely different meaning to the top-to-bottom version.
Derek Nichols, from North Carolina in the United States, wrote on Twitter: "Read this... My 14 year old brother wrote this...Crazyyyy," and then tweeted a picture of the poem written out on a sheet of paper – with his left hand caught on camera.
The 25-line poem by Jordan Nichols entitled Our Generation starts:
Our generation will be known for nothing.
Never will anybody say.
We were the peak of mankind.
That is wrong, the truth is
Our generation was a failure.
Thinking that
But in the reverse direction, the poem reads:
Thinking that
Our generation was a failure.
That is wrong, the truth is
We were the peak of mankind.
Never will anybody say,
Our generation will be known for nothing.
Shortly after the poem was posted, it began to be rapidly circulated and has now been retweeted more than 120,000 times. Derek wrote: "My left hand is all over the internet."
The poem is similar in content and approach to another poem called Lost Generation by Jonathan Reed.
According to the BBC, Derek also tried his hand at writing his own reverse poem – shorter and slightly less profound:
I like chicken nuggets.
It is a fact that
Chicken nuggets are good
Now lets turn it around
