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As long as I'm here, and because I can never stop being an editor, but to get it out of the way straight off: 2nd stanza, 1st line. "to" should have been "too"?
Your poem quietly understates a perhaps tragic irony: that age is the great leveler. It is also a reflection upon itself of why there seems to be a rift between older and younger people. And I'm not sure that, in this culture, there can ever be a change. We can see this on an intellectual level, even admit to it, but on a practical level, by and large there isn't much acceptance for the gifts that the "older" generation can offer. I'm at an age where I can honestly say that if they (the elders) retained some youthful interests, it may not be as imbalanced as it is. It's hard for older people, though. Something as simple as transportation or even walking can become very difficult.
Your piece addresses a lot of different attitudes on a lot of different levels and, for that alone, it will ever stand as excellent work.
I guess being battered around by life can have it's effects. There finally comes the time when we need not answer to anyone and can say whatever we feel.
Your last stanza really strikes at the heart, when we finally realize that we are the older ones, and we think back how we treated the elderly when we were young.
Read my poem, "Dirty Old Man" and see what you think. It speaks very much along the same lines as your last stanza.
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