(Poetry) Long Night

lost in the night
lonely thoughts drift by
ideas half-conceived
plans half-formed
words half-believed

i feel a presence,
the start of something…

but what?
a stagnant stream?
an unfinished dream?
rhythm without reason?
it feels… incomplete.

i reach for a piece
it slips through my fingers

and glides along
into the great beyond
its essence gone
before I have a chance
to remember

yet still it lingers
within the ether…

just bright enough to see
just too far to reach