The Generational Bond

Sixty years of living, learning
and reading separate them,
grandmother and granddaughter. 
Same family resemblance can be noted,
but the 17-year-old is tall, full-bodied,
confident and cool. Her grandmother
possesses none of these attributes
and never did. Each day they share a
conversation, old habits difficult to
sunder, as they exchange opinions
and update one another. University
is on the near horizon, where the
grandmother never was a contender.
Love and advice bind them, the
younger seeking, the elder giving.