The Gap   #

Sit. Breathe.  
Clouds drift across the mind’s sky,  
but you don’t climb aboard.

That practice plants a tiny gap-
a calm front porch between what you hear and how you answer.

On calls, the gap is gold.

Prospect finishes a sentence.  
Instead of scrambling for the next line,  
you stay right there—still, open.

Their words settle like snow in a globe.  
Only then do you shake it with the question that matters.

Meditation isn’t about emptying the mind.  
It’s about widening the pause
  so presence can walk through.

Less knee-jerk pitching.  
More real listening.

And strangely,  
that quiet gap sells better than any script.