Skip to content
Linespedia

PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY

By NanaBear

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

My photographic memory's out of film, I'm sad to say. Can't seem to get a picture of one thing I did today. I'm fuzzy 'round the edges about how my time was spent, So don't expect clear snapshots of my friends or where I went. My past is more in focus than the meal an hour ago, And I can sing the "Big Band" tunes, but days and months don't know. Some faces look familiar, but imagine my surprise To find out we're related!  (You sure wear a good disguise!) Alone in crowded rooms where people talk, but not with me... Can't follow conversations, so they all just let me be. It's lonely - being perfect - in this odd and unique way. I'd love to share my "albums", but most people shy away. So here I sit and contemplate where all my film has gone, And worry that my eyesight will not wait to tag along. If you find where I put it, please return it - quick - to me... Life's just a blur without my photographic memory. © on Aug 26 2001 07:10 AM PST   0 • 14

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"My photographic memory's out of film, I'm sad to say...."

Attribution & Rights

Author:NanaBear

Source:AllPoetry

"My photographic memory's out of film, I'm sad to s..." by NanaBear

For usage rights, copyright concerns, or to report an issue with this content, please visit our Copyright & Report page.

Classified Tags

Related lines

"Anoint my head with sacred music, body, hands and feet,That I may leave this mortal sphere with joy and heaven greetWith calm assurance I yet live, am known - myself - as ME -And will continue to live..."

"We paint with sound, this mortal world, each movement to inspire The heart and soul and mind of man - to here fulfill desire. The rhythms pulse, vibrate, and glow, if man will only hear With more than..."

"This island, man, a stellar light adrift upon the sea of time and space continuum, a complex galaxy of systems within systems, light, harmonics, frequency attuned to truth eternal, or to static vagari..."

"Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee,Observers of humanity,Sit smugly as they sip their tea,Quite ignorant of how they could be.To stretch their minds 'would be a chore!'(They're apathetic at the core)Thus not..."

"Within the stillness of my soul, I hear my Father's voice, Can feel His arms surround, embrace, And in His love rejoice. Within my heart he touches me And often, moved to tears, He comforts every an..."

"The space between the lines expresses the depth of everything left unsaid within the phrase. In the heart and mind resides that which is real... that which never changes. We are not the "dust of this..."

NanaBear

About NanaBear

Full Bibliography
Continue Reading

"Anoint my head with sacred music, body, hands and ..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.