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
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