Photograph

I wish the photographs
Could fill the emptiness in the room
That memories could soothe me
And take the place of you
Brown hair and darling eyes
Our joy so out of place
Nonexistent
Except for our smiles stuck to the wall with tape
I wish that all the memories
Would be enough to grasp
That I could fill all my little voids
With yellowed photographs
Faded from being stroked by time
Still smiles curling away
Halos cemented over an era that died
In the dark, yesterday
All the memories resurface
As I expected they'd do
Pain without mercy or purpose
Brutally reminding me of you
Gravity betrays
My shaking legs
And pulls me down too fast
And you keep on smiling
Stuck inside that age old photograph