compound gates.

let me hold you again
let your body melt into mine
this will always be the divide between us
a distance i regret
i was carried through my childhood
privileged, protected, blessed
i never saw danger, witnessed evil
until you lifted the blindfold
and i chose to open my eyes
the world as it always had been
how you had grown amidst the noise
revealed its cruel severity
overwhelming my perceptions
shattering my beliefs
the walls of my infant compound crumbling
as cruel reality swallowed me whole
yet you have known no difference
a curse or a blessing?
i could never understand
i wish, perhaps, that i'd caught a glimpse
of your deep, fierce eyes
no younger than i
but wiser of the world and his
endless traps and tricks.
sometimes i wonder, though
who is saving who?