In the Space Between

I was going to tell you to stay

Not sure if I’ve told you before

Told you so you’d really hear me

Told you so that you’d understand

Understand that I am being torn apart

By fear

By scorn

By fractured expectations

That we would grow old together

Watch our parents die

And our children grow

Holding each other up along the way

But now you’ve torn away my handrails

Telling me that what we have is not enough

Or too much

And in all the wrong places

But I couldn’t fit it all

In the space between

You putting on your shoes

And you walking out the door