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Hello, and welcome to my daily poetry blog. The following poems are improvised based on my day, general reflections, or by just allowing my mind to cruise in neutral without a filter. I have been working on this for something around two years now and have amassed a lot of words. You can either go through them page by page, or check out the "Hall of Better Poems" option in the right column. Please feel free to comment on what you like or dislike, and also subscribe below if you like this sort of thing. Thanks!
- Patrick Lyndaker

(typically I will write down my ideas on paper throughout the day and I may not get in front of a computer to transfer it. So I then dump a few days worth of poems at once.)

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Last Night

I was lying in bed last night
lying to myself about my future
and I had the best of ideas
To myself I thought
"You aught to remember this"
"You aught to write it down"
But no,
It was good enough that I would remember on it's own

So wrong was I
Searching now for a glint of it turns up no reward
How drastically it would have changed things
As I look back thorough the glow of hindsight
I have forgotten the best of ideas to grace the minds of men
The absence of what was
The knowledge of what could have been
It is as effective as never showing the monster in a horror movie
It keeps the terror alive in your imagination
and it becomes the most effective
This loss is greatest in my retrospection
because I have no idea what I lost
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