The Gap

• Clarice Wong, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2019

As time changes and divides generations
As science and technology continues to accelerate
Generations are framed in a universe that is entirely constructed by this
Rotting in a prison of generational gap and difference
New time demands new way of thinking
New way of thinking demands new way of acting
Generations develop different vernacular and vocabulary
Differences of individualist, collectivist, inclusion and diversity
Differences of mentality, perceptions and reactions
Differences in beliefs, interests and opinions
There is as much to learn as there is to teach
To love and to understand the voice of each other carefully
For this generation needs to see that generation as his son
and that generation needs to see this generation as his father
For we are children to our parents then parents to our children
then parents to our parents then children to our children