Coalescence

Scattered drops coalesce -
Merging to form more
Than what was before.
Random droplets
Fly as if before a storm,
Trailing away
Like rain on a windscreen.

Patterns emerge,
Almost spontaneously,
And grow,
Fractal like -
Reaching outward and inward,
Ever expanding
And deepening.

Nebulous thoughts
Words, ideas and imagery
Drift through the atmosphere
Pulling together, colliding even,
Calling out to me,
Whispering softly under the wind.
They sound like clouds in my head
That I pull into straight lines.

They feel strange
And yet familiar
Like a long lost friend,
Or love,
I'd learnt to forget,
Who appears out of almost nowhere,
Bursting into my consciousness.