SMILE!

 

Do you ever wonder why we take photographs

of the people we love…

of the places we roam?

Why do we have so many photos saved upon our phones….

in albums 

or in frames around our home.

Could it be we understand hoe every moment is temporary

that we don’t control how long a moment lasts 

and a camera allows us to capture a moment

before it drifts into the past.

Since we are constantly amassing memories

from every January to December

we need our collection of photographs

to help us all remember. 

Each photograph is a portal 

taking us from our present into our past

by waking up a memory…

from all the memories we’ve amassed.

We are drawn into a photograph..

and for a moment our world rewinds 

returning us to a specific time and place…

If only for a moment in our minds.

The photo awakens a memory 

and as across our mind it spreads…

for a moment we transcend time and space

until we tuck that memory gently back to bed.

The experts tell us there’s no way to go back in time

no way to revisit people from our past…

places we have roamed…

I say tell that to the photos we have saved upon our phones

pasted into our albums 

and we have hanging in frames around our home.