Linda: This is a poem I can relate to.
Ron: For sure – there are so many ideological chasms between people that often even simple conversations are difficult.
Ram: It goes further: even within the individual, parts that are socially labeled "young" seem to be in conflict with those which are labeled "adult". In so many ways, we're out ah balance.
Lily: Perhaps we haven't understood what it means to be an adult . . .
Age Gaps - a graphic image by T Newfields


Age Gaps


When old people gaze at children
what do they see?

A myriad of options
which may never come to be?

When children glance at old folks
what do they perceive?

A mass of wrinkles
and shattered histories?

In a society where
so much is outdated
as soon as it's created
it gets harder and harder
to cross the gap of years

Whenever we rely on words
things become tangled

We must discover hermetic bonds
that resist both shame and fear

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