The snapshot doesn't care how you feel,
its job is to capture a moment in time.
This it does with great efficiency. It does not have the time
to ask you how you feel. Instead the snapshot chooses to portray
the outward emotions shown in the moment. In order to lie
in a snapshot all you have to do is smile.
Looking back, years later you'll see your lie
and maybe, just maybe you'll remember in that moment
your mouth was filled with bile, your heart rage, your mind
confusion. But all anyone else will see is your lie, because that
is all the snapshot cared to capture.
"Why can't we be happy like this anymore?"
she'll say. You wonder, did she forget her smile
was a lie too? Or maybe, just maybe hers was not.
Maybe she is now. ******* snapshot. Why can't you
bother to gather the facts. "Smile, Say Cheese",
you look up and the camera winks.
Sep 2, 2010
Sep 2, 2010 at 2:13 PM UTC
The snapshot doesn't care how you feel,
its job is to capture a moment in time.
This it does with great efficiency. It does not have the time
to ask you how you feel. Instead the snapshot chooses to portray
the outward emotions shown in the moment. In order to lie
in a snapshot all you have to do is smile.
Looking back, years later you'll see your lie
and maybe, just maybe you'll remember in that moment
your mouth was filled with bile, your heart rage, your mind
confusion. But all anyone else will see is your lie, because that
is all the snapshot cared to capture.
"Why can't we be happy like this anymore?"
she'll say. You wonder, did she forget her smile
was a lie too? Or maybe, just maybe hers was not.
Maybe she is now. ******* snapshot. Why can't you
bother to gather the facts. "Smile, Say Cheese",
you look up and the camera winks.