Here is the second of my series of old Philosophical Musing & Poetry. It was a depressing time for me, but then, that’s when all the good stuff gets written. I don’t really see me writing emotional stuff when I’m happy. That’s why I have to recycle old stuff =P
Faded Photographs (original published date: November 23, 2006)
“Inklets of our memories sear like raindrops on my soul for all eternity…”
Remember when you took photographs of the two of you together? When you first looked through them, it meant nothing…just a snapshot of a frame in your life, a reminder if you will, of a place you’ve been or an activity you were doing.
Now, after they’re gone, you begin to look at each photograph more carefully, and you will see things you’ve never noticed before.
The contour of each facial expression you now find in each picture also encapsulates an emotion of a moment in time…an emotion that you can now see clearly in each background, each inanimate object, each particle of air that was captured with the two of you…an emotion you so deeply long for now, even just for a fraction of a second. You pain yourself in knowing that time can only move in one direction; their elusive smile that was once exclusively yours will never be ever again.
Suddenly, everything becomes a lifetime ago, as you sit there, holding onto the photographs, staring into nothingness. As you look into each moment, it feels like changing channels on a television, each photograph depicting a different time, at a different place; but the actors were still the same…with each flicker burning imprints into your soul like a hot branding iron searing through your heart. No matter how many teardrops soil these windows to an unreachable Eden, your soul will never return.
I created this collage in dedication to someone once special, R:
by ProjectMoonlightCafe
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