Your Photograh Poem by P. A. Donohue

It's a very personal thing a photograph
taken one moment from another's laugh
caught unawares or thought portrayed
a moment of now forever stayed

I would look at your photographs
so many of one by so few
but all caught a glimpse of sense
and senseless commonality too

so I took all your photographs
and a few I happened upon
collecting your life from one or other
compiling and revealing truth

I took them all to have and live
the stories of your day
see and be and be touched by you
what your portrait had to say

I gave you some of my photographs
a bared truth for you to see
worshiped or tossed away
for you and me my only way

now all your photos are gone from me
given for others to love
I never really saw your face
I never got enough. 

~p.a.2011