suliqyre:

There’s something bothering me that I can’t understand. It’s a thought, or it’s a memory, or maybe it’s an intuition. When I try to think about it, it seems too complex to describe, too faint to see, too indistinct to capture. The feelings that surround it are nebulous and imprecise. I want to see what it is, but I don’t even know where it begins or ends, or what form it might take.

Beleaguered by my inability to reach the thing, my only hope is to express everything that surrounds it, and see what happens. Through the effort of creative action, something will appear. What that something will be, I cannot say, but this does not mean it’s not worth the effort. By attempting to express myself, I create an opportunity for the thing that is currently beyond my understanding to become real.

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