Memories Fade, But We'll Keep The Photographs

Pictures

Posing and prompts

Delicate lace and frivolous

Attire all about

Adjust the lighting

No need for the sun

Now carefully arrange

The pieces of your mask

Chin up, smile polished

Because the pictures are made

Inside

No one is truly smiling

No one wears their Sunday best

For dying eggs

Or to unwrap

Shimmering gifts

But it is the pictures that matter

Is it not

As if the memories are encouraged the fade

Into oblivion, lethe

But the photographs remain

False evidence

To a joyous life

And when said life has ended

The photographs remain

Oh, what a lovely life

That one has lived