Pretty as pictures-
staring in distance
Four sisters
posing with all the teethy smiles
standing behind their parents grinning
A reminder of good times
at times sore
A reminder of times that'd sure be
no more
A memory frozen in unkind, unyielding
impossibility
Pretty as pictures-
no room for errors
framing in and framed in a moment
that was unlived
except for the smiles and the grin
posed without feeling
"Say cheese"
or whatever that may please
as long as it conceals and seals the moment
for deceiving the posterity
forever
Pretty as pictures-
no room for ageing
or what was waiting
in the not distant future
Pretty as pictures-
a lie unlike any
a nailed testimony to human capacity
at faking resilience, bliss and
all things elusive,
love and smiles included
Pretty as pictures-
all the emotions, all the shortcomings
all that makes a human human
dissolved in the dirty waters of the dark room
hung from the wires
(the negatives) left to dry undeveloped
Pretty as pictures-
if only life could (always) be
No one then need feel
framed by fate
and nailed to walls (waiting)
Lies can be pretty,
pretty as pictures.
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