Mind The Gap

There is a Venn diagram between a feeling and an idea,

between my fingers and your naked back,

between pummel stone and the shower droplets.

There is a pretty huge gap between inequality and injustice,

between these ideas and what I am trying to say,

between underwear and man-skirts, kilts,

god bless them.

There is a gap between good quality and good intentions.

Sometimes, both are missing, it’s hard to know when

there is the gap,

between knowing and being able to execute,

between “knowing” and actually knowing,

and the gap between them might be smaller than you think.

Insert penis joke here.

“It’s not the size, it’s how you use it.”

There is a gap between my humor and what I’m actually saying.

I want the world to not be in pain,

even when the pain is the gap between

who we believe we are

and who

we want to become.

The gap is not painful, once

you know where you are, once

you get comfortable, but not too comfortable.

My roommate used to say,

“Comfort is the devil, never learn it.”

Take a second, and assess, are you comfortable where you are sitting?

Are you comfortable in other areas of your life? Food for thought.

There are certain gaps that are harder to breach once you are too comfortable in the trenches of suffering or in the bliss of your couch.

For instance,

there is a gap between how I perceive myself and how others see me,

there is a gap between kindness to self, and kindness to other,

and how do we cross that gap?

There is a gap between being called a daddy and being a daddy.

There is a gap between self-care

and accomplishing my goals.

There is a gap between the right time to do something and my emotional maturity,

between the end of college, and me accepting it,

between the lemon tree and the ground,

between a spider web and a running four-year-old,

between responsibility and maturity,

and until we cross that gap,

we will never know,

that the empty space

waiting to be filled

is the most exciting part,

the crossing of that gap,

the gap between one person and the next,

between one exchange and the next, between effort and result, result and knowing, knowing and celebration, pain and respite, failure and success,

if you look at the gap from the right distance, both circles are part of the same Venn diagram, the gap was always in your thinking.