The Spaces in Between

The Spaces-in-Between

I never really thought about the spaces-in-between
Until the winter season came and there was no more green.

For then the leaves had fallen and the branches now were bare
And I can look between them now and something new is there!

​That something new it is the sky
in all its shades of blue
With waving clouds that look at me
and say "how do you do!"

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And then at night I look between the branches in the tree
I sit and wait a little while in and what do you think I see?

I see the stars all shining bright and twinkling in the sky
I smile at them and twinkle back with my happy eye!

"I never noticed you before when leaves were all in bloom
But now with spaces in between I even see the moon!"

The gift of emptiness it brings a fullness to my mind
A way to look, a way to see what really lies behind.
Who knows what waits behind the trees when there is no green?
Clouds and stars and skies of blue in spaces-in-between.

©written by Christine Summerfield/March 1, 2019