The Distance Between Us
A path winds. It does not ask to be followed. It simply is.
We walk through the world in pairs, yet we are always alone. The space between two people is a vast country. We measure it in steps. We measure it in the way the light fails, turning the familiar into shadows. There is a comfort in this distance. It allows for the secret life of the heart to remain, for a moment, untouched by the noise of the day. We are together, yet we are traveling toward different horizons.
Does the path know where we are going? Or does it only know the weight of our feet, pressing into the earth, leaving a mark that the wind will soon erase?
Silence gathers at the edges of the frame.
José J. Rivera-Negrón has captured this quiet journey in his image titled A Love Story. The figures move into the fading light, leaving the rest of the world behind. Do you see the space between them, or only the path they share?
