The Elusive Spark

'Reach for it…'

'Stretch...'

I dug deep within myself, searching where I had felt that familiar energy first stem from. Before it used to always feel like it was just out of arm's length, as if only the tip of my fingernail could graze it, but now it felt as though I needed several more appendages just to get anywhere near it.

But it was there. I had to believe that it hadn’t just been my imagi