....a pause....

The distance from my brain to my fingertips that rest on the keyboard is not very long, yet it is a chasm that is sometimes scary to jump across, intimidating, daunting and walked away from in frustration. I take this short steps, approaching the gap and then I stutter like a newbie hurdler coming to a high hurdle. I chop, try to regroup and then stop. I look across the now-wider gap and decide to return later to write again, hopefully with a shorter distance between thoughts, of which there are many, and words, of which there are few.