just out of reach

so much of life is… just out of reach

our desires, our hopes, our dreams… they’re just so close but unable to be grasped

we try harder and harder and harder to reach them… and can’t quite get there

but sometimes, we just need to stop and rest

and let what’s just out of grasp come to us

“A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”​ – L. in The Daily Crescent (June, 1848)