The Space Between Our Words

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The Space Between Our Words

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Why don't we have honest conversations with the ones we love the most? Why don't we listen - really listen - without comments, without reply, without retort - when they attempt to tell us what hurts, where it hurts, and how the hurt devastates them. So much of the pain we cause, and we feel, is avoidable. Not because we don't tell enough - but because we don't listen enough. The smallest of things becomes intractable, our understanding of what things mean have no relationship to what it actually meant. We don't clarify, we conclude, and are damned for it. Bridges which connect love become chasms, and we stand at both ends and wonder - what happened, how did two beautiful people find their worst selves in the relationship which mattered the most. If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on the dissonance in relationships -

A Love Letter from a Frustrated Husband to an Exasperated wife
A Primer on How to Deal With (Being) Hurt
Lovers Who Synchronise (& those who don't)

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