SMILE IN A

​[ 3RD BRACKET ]

I love to take photographs
In them I freeze time
Time that someday I will wish would return
Moments I will wish to get back
They remind you of better times in your life
Reminds you of how things were
How much people change right before your eyes
Yet you never notice until you go back and see
The photographs that take you by surprise
You think of how little your kids where
How happy the person looks in those pictures
What I have never come to understand is why
People take pictures of loved ones in a coffin
Those are memories that I will never want to remember
I believe a person should be photographed
The way they were in life
Not the way they look when they die…