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between the feeling and the fact
between the longing and the act a gap I stand at the edge between this side and that between the urge and turning back I stand at the edge of the gap I stand at the edge held back by the gap I stand at the edge airplane door open parachute strapped on ready to plunge but trapped can't cross the edge the gap I stand on a ledge mountain peaks high sheer rock straight down I don't look down can't go forward or back I stand at the edge look down it's a sidewalk the light changes I still hold back I stand at the edge trapped aching to reach past the gap but can't cross that can't cross from feeling to fact from thought to act can't cross that too deep too wide too high a chasm an abyss a canyon a crack can't cross that can't cross the gap I stand at the edge I act in my head hold still in dread unsure instead of risking the gap between the feeling and the fact between the longing and the act a gap I try to dance to sing my body's stiff my voice holds back it's out of tune off track it lacks later I want to dance to sing I recall the lacks I hold back snip snap crick crack a gaping aching gap your hand my hand a gap I have reached something cracked now if I reach and you reach do we reach a track or a trap? a track a path that goes along goes beyond is this that? or a trap ever tighter ever closer no escape except surrender is this that? track or trap? a trap? a lure? to capture crack enclose ensure there's no turning back is it that? I look down it's just a crack I stand frozen crick crack don't cross the crack don't go forward don't go back between the thought and the act between the longing and the fact a gap I stand at the edge I act in my head I hold still instead of risking the gap I stand at the edge I act in my head caught between desire and dread between the fiction and the real the real and the ideal the image and the act the thought and the fact the wish and the fear the longing and the lack at the gap a gap in the track crick crack snap crack gap an edge ledge gap stopped in my tracks a gap can't cross that this not that dog not cat a gap split splat zip zap a gap between the feeling and the act between the wish and the fact this not that a gap trip trap not that not that not a trap not that zip zap rip rap trapped between the fiction and the fact trapped stalled at the gap do I fall into the gap? or can I cross past that? is it a trap? or is there a track past that? trapped stalled splat zap trapped between the feeling and the fact between the longing and the act a gap Elsa
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