The Unfilled Gap

Nothing can fill the gap
When we are away from those we love and it would be
Wrong to try to find anything.

Since leaving the gap unfilled preserves the bond between
Us. It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap.

He does not fill it but keeps it empty, so that our communion
With another may be kept alive even at the cost of pain.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison