Almost

“Two hands. An impossible gap.

Everything unspoken between two people lives in that small distance — the words never sent, the apology never offered, the tenderness withheld for reasons that at the time felt like protection. The stone does not close the gap. The sculpture does not want you to look away from it.

It wants you to name it.

There is a particular ache that belongs only to the almost — the friendship that almost was, the reconciliation that almost happened, the truth that almost got said out loud before the moment passed.

This piece isn’t asking you to grieve what didn’t happen.

It’s asking you to notice what part of you still lives in the reaching.

Whose hand are you still, quietly, holding out?”