Where do thoughts come from?

They are taken from our daily lives.

Captured and retained

To live one day again.

We who write these thoughts,

Must ever be on guard, less they flee.

For a thought can be microscopic

Until you add some words and set it free.

It then has a life in the meaning of words,

Which are the soul and the breath

That a poet tries to capture in his poem,

Giving a thought freedom to live on.