Generations

[tectak]

We are split you see, all punctuation suggestions may be ignored, because I rather like all of this. However, coma after split then semi-colon line end
son from father,
daughter from mother,
peas, de-shelled from the podI would go full stop here. Think perhaps just "shelled" would work as de-shelled implies a previous shelling!
so spiritually blind we think holiness — God.without punctuation in this line there is a double meaning. Maybe your intent. Do you mean the quantative "so" or the conditional "so"? Both work.

Yet, only our feet have trod upon our fellows, grindingNow you have gone mad. Is the "yet" required? And if it is, is the comma following?
them to bone and blood, the profane as rampant
as before the flood: self-centeredness is truly binding,Next four lines are worthy. You will not win the worst poem contest with this. The sentiment is reminiscent of Tolstoy. Something out of "What men live by and other tales. You will pick up on this more than I. It has been a long time!
taking our soul’s winding, laying it out upon the loom
of greedy & desirous hearts. We know nothing but a doom
that despoils any pretense of unsullied innocence.

Soon my friends the bill will come due,Again, a comma after friends. Otherwise it could be an imminent arrival of tame policemen!
I see the knowledge in your eyes,
and know, you also know this too.Perhaps a little clumpy in a tectak sort of way. I know you know I know this, too.
Bankrupt we stand on ever shifting quicksand,next four lines would not benefit from further punctuation as this is a running thought put to print. It exists in a kind of cerebral vacuum and is the better for it.
our heads in hands -salt burnt tear blinded eyes-
we’ve not the means, and lack the knowledge to get by,
and so we quietly wallow here, in depression and despair,
at the end of our life's year.

"What else can we do", I hear you cry,
"when our Armageddon comes — fly?"Yes to the sentiment but I think there is a weakness encouraged by the sudden desire to force a rhyme. Even "Die?" instead of "fly" would make an ironic contribution. Not sure on this as there is a "die" coming
Does it really matter how long or short the hour,
we eventually succumb to a coward's
faint heart, whether slowly or quickly we die? we depart??
Will you try to stand tall and firm
against the ravaging ravenous tide?
It matters not, for it easily rolls you under, in some rooms, "It matters not " is more a cliche than a figure of speech. In this room, it matters not"
forming another layer of sand,
where the next great group of fools
can blindly take their stand? No question mark required here, there is no question

©2012 -Erthona

As I began, so I will end. I like this in a very selfish way. There are bits of it that I feel very comfortable and familiar with. The sentiment is a little global and non-specific but condensed thinking leads to clipped and trite verse.....one liners and the like. Not a great deal of editing needed, but there is something wrong in the conclusion...as if what has gone before does not lead us to such a familiar concept as the laying down of sedimentary souls. Just me, I guess.