Interstitial Space

The space between life and death

Dividing future from past
Between this and that next breath
From this heartbeat to that last
Eternal twilight somehow
Separating day from night
This frail filament of now

Fragile as a dawn wind kite
Just after the sun appears
Fall and rise and truth and lies
Before the moon disappears
As the lightning cleaves the skies
Grief from laughter joy from tears

The losing from the winning
Stunning triumph stunned defeat
From one to the other hand
As the circle turns complete
The ending and beginning
Demarcated by a strand

Dynamic stasis spinning
Like the sea waves on the sand
Earth and ocean husband wife
Dancing on the razor's edge
Poised and balanced on the knife
Standing on the summit ledge

The space between death and life

+Steven Curtis Lance



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