Memory Loss

I am almost asleep comfortably drifting when a troubling sense of loss settles in behind my navel it feels like a piece of me something that I’ve done a place that I’ve been someone that I’ve met has drifted off disappeared it taunts and teases just out of reach like that familiar yet forgotten name at rest on the tip of your tongue this sense of loss of something gone evokes a deep-seated melancholy an unsettling need to reach out and touch what isn’t there but should be.