Mine is the sandwiched generation they say

We never got to be children, 

carefree...

Carried the burden

of expectations of many a kind

 I accepted.

I didn't know I could rebel.

I got to be parents to the parents who became childlike.

Accepted.

What about being parents to the children I bore?

I do not even want to exercise the authority we were answerable to.

But when every question is answered with a

so what.

I wonder.... what changed? and mainly, when?