Finding Meaning

Impossible task
Stretched across the table
In a ball of wool
Bound by lack of skill
And diminishing hope 
A fragmented memory serves to tease
Pockets of knowledge out
Which below the cortex sit
(Like the cat from under the bed) 
Just out of view
Effort and frustration combine 
To hit a wall of black
And white
The instructions on the page
Fade and blur
Before my eyes
Into obscurity.   
Squinting
To pluck the print 
To imprint it’s stencil 
To charge  the neuron
A last onslaught to make  connection.
Before willingness is lost.