A photograph of you

January 21, 2018

Scrolling through my iPhone

A thousand photos flashing by

Moments caught forever

Galleries of time that quietly fly

I smile at familiar faces

as they age across the years

Babies, birthdays and occasions

Captured laughter, happy tears

I pause for just a moment

At old photographs of you

And for a millionth time it seems

My heart will break in two

Your hair & smile has stayed the same

You never aged a day

It’s still so hard to understand

Why it had to be that way

If only you’d have stayed with us

and shared a lifetime too

We wouldn’t have to settle for

So few photographs of you.

By Hazel Birdsall Jauury 2018

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