The Spaces Between

This poem is the result of a quote. It's a really awesome quote, it left me thinking. And then I wrote this. I hope you enjoy.

The Spaces Between

“And then the line was quiet but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.” - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

I love the quiet places

The spaces between worlds

Between people

I travel through the third space

Invisible

Tenuous

Reached only by the phone

A place that is quiet, but not dead

It hums with a constant vitality

Sometimes I hear things

A sharp excited breath

The steady ticking of a clock

Whispers in the winds

I smile the ghost of a smile

I think this is what time sounds like

And I find peace in the empty spaces

The quiet places

I picture beloved faces

And let them trickle away

A moment of silence

Two souls, alone, together

On the edge of a great truth

And then the moment is gone

Whisked away by the onrush of sound

Life continues its conversation

Floods the quiet places

And empty spaces

But I still have the memories

They visit me whilst I sleep

Soon forgotten

But never really lost

Never really there

But real all the same