double brick walls, painted a nice colour,
soft yet
solid
keeping families apart from
neighbors
car doors maybe
child lock on
bedroom do not enter signs between parents and children
do not disturb in hotels perhaps
between staff, other guests and
uninhibited lovers
a gap
maybe its Money
bank accounts perhaps
joint with two names
debt from memories
yet somehow remnants
stick
I oh You
we
but still her and me
balances
far off from
balanced
a gap
and then
to educate
to ‘work’
principal diversity in
application and acceptance;
résumé, thesis, and
promotion
director of
senior so on
vice to
a gap
political policy
a gap
ZOOM in
maybe a screen
between, now
or
maybe a gesture from
here to there or
handshakes for medium
decorum in space,
a hug to break
or a kiss to appreciate
a greeting for a meeting
all still apart
you and I
beginning speech with
arguments and
rapture
miscommunications
in conversation and yet
more of two separate
monologues
vying for spotlight
consistently upstaging
life together while tearing each other’s hearts
like carnivores but then
again
connecting as partners
a gap
hearing the sound
of your voice
and listening to mine
inside
a gap
feeling
uncomfortable in skin
with you
because somehow
it’s there but,
it shouldn’t be
gazing from behind my eyes
beyond his
a gap
but my skin reveals
an empty thinness
beyond which
or within which
busy movement crawls
in tiny bits of named
almost nothingness
particular tango
with dips of intelligible but often
unpredictable uniqueness enhanced by
moments of undeniable microscopic melding
and yet still we hear it takes two to tango
a gap
but when we
dissect the dance
even further
something begins to happen
that gap
just between us
set in mortar, money and
molecules
in paradigm professions, computer screens
and lovemaking
in vocal vibration
and in the way that some children come to
know
that gap
from one side to
another
revealing that beneath
the banks and the river
all
resides
earth
so to bridge
only a perception in-flight
above
while deep below
a continuous wholly flow
and so starting in me
that shallowly appearing gap
became an all-consuming trap
where fear of other
began to smother
of once a fictitious fracture
emerging
a major human fault
of illusory proportions
because however deep and
wide
the growing canyon
seems
one
needs only
relinquish you and I
for a moment
in the infinite depths of nothingness
in the riverbed below
and land will begin to move and shake
as the ancient and eternal sutures
show themselves
a humanic shift
of magnitudes unfathomable
as every jagged boulder
every pointed rock
every uneven pebble
every unique grain of sand
every infinitesimal smidgen of sediment
every single speck of something
I watch
as God’s colossal jigsaw
unites
itself
beyond my eyes
and in a moment,
becomes nothing
and
everything
the once precarious rope bridge
frailly swinging between
what seemed to be
two mammoth empires of life
and suspended over a perilous, anxious divide
vanishes.
that gap,
is no more and
indeed,
never was.
just between us
is
us.
which is why
bridging the gap
begins
by
d
i
v
i
n
g
into it.