The hands on a clock are only in sync twenty-four times a day. The hands spend one thousand, four hundred, sixteen minutes a day racing around the clock, trying to be together. The arms on a clock, like the arms of a son, do not always mask one another. Arms on a clock never leave. Natureβs clock can tell time and kiss fathersβ foreheads just long enough to leave a spot. Around the sun-kissed spot is a receding hairline and wicked-sharp eyebrows a mile away, just above the dark eyes and weak smile.
Over time, history repeats.
Who knew that just a strong bond could create such similarity? Soon, the same dark eyes will be found just to the right, below a receding hairline; a replica of December, 1995. The problem with dates is that they are in the past and the strings of time that hold such father-son relationships together fray until the ropes of hope can no longer be held on both ends.
The prompt given in class was to find a picture of our parents or grandparents from before we were born and write a poem describing it. Most of the students wrote literally what they physically saw in the picture. But, you'd be surprised at what can be pulled from a single photograph..