Friday, June 14, 2013

no, not you

the photo
has aged, but
not you.
it's wrinkled
and yellow.
the corners
frayed.
everyone in
it is older
now,
but not you.
the color
has faded,
the surface
blurred,
you can hardly
tell just
who is who,
but no,
not you.
you are still
the same boy
on the stoop,
smiling in
sunlight.

2 comments:

Sara Leigh said...

Reminds me of my father, thinking he was 19 when he was really in his 90s. Nicely done.

Di said...

And here is that theme --the core of us, solid, unchanging.