this bridge between hard places

i race

across the bridge

between the hard places

-

i bet you know

the sense

of relief i feel

as you yourself have likely experienced that same stepping away

from one hard place
and that same looking ahead
to another

that moment of relief as you step away
that is
 entirely filled 

with the voices and colours and sounds and people

of all you might have imagined to that point

and then just as suddenly
felt
the extraordinary

emptiness 

of the great space between 

the unknowing

where there are simply

no referent points

and you stand
posed somewhere between

here and there

and 

otherness

in the great suddenly filled with nothingness

of the space
between what might have been
and what might be