Picture Frame
Bare are these walls...
I now stand before,
that were once adorned with picture frames.
The brown boxes are loaded,
and these frames of which I speak wait within.
The door frame, the frame of the home,
the borders that surround my garden,
and the walkways I meander in the mornings,
frame my memories, of a time once not bounded.
And time... the time I once had in abundance,
is now narrowed, like a punctuation that follows a thought,
or a phrase that concludes a story...
or, a casket that encapsulates a creation.
Frames on a wall or frames buried beneath the soil...
all are painstakingly aligned in parallel for the viewing...
breathing life back to our memories...
like some kind of voodoo.
"'Cause I'm a million miles away
And at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame."
Thank you, Hendrix.
Copyright © Martin Braun | Year Posted 2022
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