no easy epiphany

I think of people 
sometimes, or no

say something 
- and it feels like some 
great, deep hovering

truth 

out there
suspended 
suddenly swings
just or almost in reach,

swaying or bobbing
invisibly. And so as a
matter of course and habit
I reach, grope, probe and flail 

fondling my thin air mind.

Trying to pull solid rocks out of it 

with substance
and weight 
like I do.

And I do 

but 

it wasn't what 
I thought I was trying 
to say 

or find. Produce 
something to show
and tell between with. See, I thought 

I had some guidance prong 
or justice gauge, maybe! 
Felt like, coming in focus - 
or just a big real feeling made 
of words. You could put it.
Question it, explain it, you could 

do anything 

with a thing like that.
If you could have it. If you
closed your mind's-eye's
hands upon it, and felt  

shape, heft and point

made yielding real.
Anyway, 

most times,
turns out nothing.
Or something 

elusive, 
out of reach, 
beguiling in its 
intangible almost-caress 

My tip?
When that happens, 
what can you do? 

Just make up some
deep
shit. 
See how it sounds 
on the light and air 

in their eyes 
and between their ears 

They surprise you sometimes 
and it makes you
realize 
something
real about humanity. 

Huge, true and just 

out of reach