THE SPACE BETWEEN US

How do we drag the clouds aside,

return to the sunshine,

and simply breathe,

together

in that blessed hush

where love always shines?

 

Can grace and empathy prevail

when white waters heaped

decades of emotional debris

in the space between us?

 

How do we take the initial

unnerving, tormented step

while too fragile

to withstand anything but softness?