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Faded Photograph

lines, color, and shape,

Make up a soft picture,

A vivid memory.

As I walk closer,

It seems further away.

I run to try to catch it,

But it opens its wings and flies away.

I try to hide and pounce on it,

The memory just fades away.

As I touch the photograph,

It disappears into the dark leaving me lost,

Without a memory.

finally without a sound,

The memory appeared.

seeing only blur figures,

In the photograph.

I wonder if I,

Did not capture the right moment,

of the life of a love one.

That I hold so dear,

scarred from the pain.

I realize the faded photograph,

Is the memory I took.

Not focusing on the true,

Beauty of their life.

I captured only,

her pain and death.

 

A faded photograph,

What a waste of film

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brittany-laray-smith
American
Published
Jan 21, 2010
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