Thoughts So Soon Forgot

Thoughts so soon forgot are lost
and "found" is thinnest hope, for when 
they come around again they won't be known.

"Nothing's new," they say and so
I know. Though new to me, the thing
has been a notion old to countless minds.

"Best to write it down," they say

before it wastes away and dies

for sweet and happy notions oft retreat

and make the learner open eyes

and ears to wonder what is there,

and finding thoughts are treasure to be held.