Clarity

Is so hard to come by. At once a feeling and a reality. There are times when I thought I had found it. Sitting on a Maui beach, two hours before first light, it all seemed, so simple. Air so clear, the big dipper can be touched! Just the right thought will transport you to another world. And you wait, and you wait, in anticipation of the next true thing. Hope and desire are twins that will do you in. Here I am now, amidst the clutter of teddy bear bugs, and papers, and clothes, and CD boxes, and the TV on, computer humming, with the feeling that I am as close here as I was on the Maui beach to clarity.