T h e     s p a c e s     i n     b e t w e e n

by Leighton Jay © 2015

Space is like a negative presence

Always there, right near us.

But we rarely notice it

And almost never attend to it.

In conversations we often squeeze out the space entirely.

We rarely notice it

And almost never attend to it.

Words jumble out rapidly – ferociously devouring the one before.

They tumble over the top of one another –

Squeezing and crushing

                                                                                           – the unborn possibilities from the spaces in between

What would happen to our conversations

If we listened to the spaces between the words?

If we really attended to them?

Nurtured them and breathed life into their unborn possibilities?

What would our conversations be like if we

Always noticed the space in it?

And almost always attended to it?