POEM
by Erlie A. Lopez
Between two words
is a space
where a thought
tarries.
Between two lips
is a silence
where a hurt
lingers.
Between two minds
is a gap
where each ego
wobbles.
There is no such thing
as nothing:
between beginning and end,
and other extremes,
hold your breath,
magic happens.
A pause
can let a bud
wait to flower,
make a prayer
usher a miracle,
and a heart
start to heal.
What we make
of betweens,
seemingly a void,
can even make
a whole
of what they link.
About the Poet
Erlie Lopez is a Filipina retired from the frenetic world of Public Relations and Advertising in Metro Manila. She was, in the last 18 years, head of a PR agency she co-founded. In her independent and sedate world now, she mostly reads, writes, stays socially connected, soaks in Nature, and develops new interests and skills adapting to the pandemic mode of life. She has also returned to a first love – poetry – which keeps her heart open to the grace and rhythm of the universe.
