Abstraction Distraction

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. - Thoreau

both there and not

in the creaking, cobwebbed recesses of my sometimes mind

an intangible renaissance of reason never quite coming to light

an unreachable holy grail

a stained glass prism of logic

there you are

an idea and a concept hiding beneath the covers of a patchwork quilt

oblivious to remorse or guilt

known but not a fact

tending to add rather than subtract

elusive, evasive and abstract

Author's Note

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination." - Thoreau