Generation Chaos: We Were Here is a raw, unflinching archive of coming of age in a world already engulfed in flames.

Blending poetry, memory, whispers and witness, Cemmi Rane writes from the eye of the storm-where school shooter drills replace recess, where rights vanish by executive order, and children carry climate grief like a second spine. In this world, womanhood is a war zone, queerness is a politicized issue, and truth itself is being slowly redacted.
These poems do not beg or plead for hope.
They remember.
They resist.
They ache towards the fever-dream like memory of childhood in a long forgotten world.
We ache towards softness anyway.

This is not dystopia.
This is a generation trying to live through it-
holding each other with ink-stained hands and hearts,
writing we were here into the rubble before it disappears.