The gap

between

knowing and doing

can be as wide

as a universe

says Debbie

Bridging it is

a struggle

a daily toil

and on some

luminous days

sometimes succeed

in narrowing

the gap

and even slip

from doing

to being

This poem was posted on Twitter by R Sriram in response to a Confucian Proverb I posted: “It’s not the knowing that is difficult. But the doing.”

Sriram is not just a voracious reader, but one of the most thoughtful people I have met. The lines he posted struck a chord with me someplace.