Age Gap

A deafening silence
A wall between us
A gulf created by hate

You scream but nobody hears
I scream but nobody cares
Blood all around us
Imagined and real

They covered our eyes
So we won’t see
They covered our ears
So we won’t hear
They covered our mouths
So we couldn’t speak

In their eyes
We are young
In their minds
We know nothing

We wanted to be free
You wanted to be you
And I wanted to be me
Was it so much to ask?
Was it so much to give?

We stopped screaming
We tried to listen
But the silence is deafening
We cannot live in this
We cannot live with this

But the gulf has already been created
The wall is already there
We will never understand them
And they will never understand us

(by the Frog Princess, March 2009)