Camera

Photographic images taken out
Trying to stop time
Helping us to remember
For those who forgot and those who never knew

Somehow these posed smiles never quite reflect
the reality of life
Locked there in the Sun & flashing light
Two dimensional
Flattened against a wall
Tucked away in one of those cutest of ‘Books of Scraps’

That’s what they’ve become
Memory scraps grabbed from the past
Brought out today
Viewed through tears of sadness and joy

"That’s my boy, gone before you were born
You’ve got his eyes".