I held a photograph today
Only in my mind
It was worn and torn from all the years I've carried it
Of a memory left in posterity

It brought me comfort for a moment
To remember a home and people forgotten
To remove time from it all
It took me to a moment

Where I was not alone
And life's burdens were shared
Among those who care
And there was no pain that couldn't be let down gently

The shame was I could not see their faces
The ones I have forgotten
It was so long ago
And the strings of time have made it so I see them only in imagination

So I hold this photograph
A creased piece of time
Only in my mind
Of a place and people I have forgotten.