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Can You Shrink Age Gaps for Love?
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">I was raised on dial-up tones</p><p style="text-align: center;">And burned CDs with careful hands,</p><p style="text-align: center;">You were born into Wi-Fi skies</p><p style="text-align: center;">And love that fits in Instagram.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">I learned romance from mixtapes,</p><p style="text-align: center;">From waiting hours by a landline,</p><p style="text-align: center;">You send a heart in half a second</p><p style="text-align: center;">Still somehow, it feels like mine.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">They say I’m “too grown” for your sparkle,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Say you’re “too young” for my scars,</p><p style="text-align: center;">As if love checks birth certificates</p><p style="text-align: center;">Before it studies hearts.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">I quote lyrics from Lauryn Hill,</p><p style="text-align: center;">You dance to Rema at midnight,</p><p style="text-align: center;">But when your laughter fills the room,</p><p style="text-align: center;">My old-school soul feels alright.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">I remember life before timelines,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Before stories disappeared in a day,</p><p style="text-align: center;">You teach me how to live in the moment,</p><p style="text-align: center;">I teach you how to stay.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">They measure us in numbers</p><p style="text-align: center;">Years stacked like courtroom files,</p><p style="text-align: center;">But love doesn’t count in calendars,</p><p style="text-align: center;">It counts in shared smiles.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Yes, I’ve seen more Decembers,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yes, you’ve just begun your spring,</p><p style="text-align: center;">But tell me why my winter heart</p><p style="text-align: center;">Blooms when you sing?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">I worry sometimes</p><p style="text-align: center;">Will my yesterdays weigh on your tomorrow?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Will your bright forever</p><p style="text-align: center;">Outrun my borrowed sorrow?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Yet when you hold my hand,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Time loosens its grip on me.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The gap becomes a whisper,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not the wall they claim to see.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe love can’t shrink numbers,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe years won’t rearrange</p><p style="text-align: center;">But if two souls speak the same language,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Does the difference still remain?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">So here I stand</p><p style="text-align: center;">Gen Y with a hopeful grin,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Loving a Gen Z girl</p><p style="text-align: center;">Like time was never a sin.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">If hearts align in rhythm,</p><p style="text-align: center;">If respect outgrows the fear,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Then maybe love doesn’t shrink age gaps</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">It simply disappears.</p>
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