If You Only Knew What That Picture Means To Me Poem by James McLain

Timeless life goes on,
one last letter a picture of you
of your smile.

If I was in a bad place,
a place other's knew we never talked about it.
She and I though I tried.

I did not know what to do
because if I had I would have done something
different
so I could be there with you.

People forget what they never knew or once had
and low though I am now thus low they have set me
I did what I did for the very same reason
you did that night last July.

People will forget and can only reminisce
what it's like to be thirteen when they turn fourteen.
These will all be stories some day,
and this pictures will become one day an old photograph
like those memories that you see other people
post on Facebook.

But right now,
I can only live in your moment and these moments are all
that I have.

She to me is so very beautiful As fresh with youth
as the moment I was, that you now are.

And if they allow you to read this poem or you're
listening to your favorite song,
and it's this one timeless moment that drives other
people on with the people who you love most in this world.

And in that one moment,
I can only try to reassure you,
we are if only for a moment, the moment that you knew
what that picture of your moment means to me.
Caroline.