Living in the Gap (A Poem for Helen)

Helen cropped

 

 

We are living in the gap

between the way things are

and the way they will be.

 

 

 

 

 

We are living in the gap

between starving children

and MTV,

living in the gap

between military budgets

and illiteracy.

 

We are living in the gap

between the world that’s coming,

and this world we see

“No more crying then,

No more dying then

No more sighing then”.

 

But in this mean time,

our arms are stretched

to breaking point

trying to hold onto

something, anything

in this gap between

hope and pain

this gap between

you and me,

this gap in our lives

where you had been.

 

Kristin Jack, June 2012