Gazing at some faded photos
I realize that the past is gone
that the person in those pics is no longer ...
is in essence dead,
dead to the present
as I will be tomorrow
each day a new snap shot
each photo a frozen piece of eternity
a silent still
captured in the imaging of our mind.
"Who is that?"
It is not me
not me any more,
just as the one who writes now
will change soon enough.
"Who wrote this?"
I will ask, in the distant future
"Who was this person?"
Can I embrace her youthfull joy as well as her pain?
Am I happy with the photo taken just today?
Will I better understand her ten years from now?
These are the questions
I must ponder each day
as I take that reflective morning snap shot
in the mirror of my present life.
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Wonderful to come here and read these gentle wise words. Reading Rod's comment I felt in total agreement and then also when I read Presences comment which seemed to be reflecting on a different conceptual understanding, I felt in total agreement.
That made me feel excited that I could contain different veiwpoints at the same time.
Yes, everything, including us, is in a contant state of change in every moment and at the same time there is something in us that is completely timeless. What Rod describes as the I AM.
Excellent thought provoking poetry combined with the beautiful simplicity of the heart. Lovely
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Freeze frame
Within the heart of a 2000 year old sequoia IS the first year sapling, yet alive as the formative core of ernergies though having few of the exact elements it possesed when Jesus walked the earth. It is the SNAP in snapshot that tries to capture What Is, to capture the endless flow of the Song of I AM. It is not "Who WROTE this" but "Who WRITES this" and Who indeed but You, I AM, always, eternal. "her youthfull joy as well as her pain" are HERE as the foundation of Now, like the first ring in 2000 of the cross section of that tree. You will only understand "her", ever, as well as you understand her Now.
This is truly a well shared observance on the nature to Being. Be ever blessed and bright, Rahad (fka Rod)
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Very good! There is nothing as far in the past as 1 minute ago. And while it's fun to go through old pictures, it brings all those memories back and all the changes - and all the questions never answered. Good write! I enjoyed it.
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"You cannot step in the same river twice" it is said... and so it is with the human life. What a continual journey we are on! It is also said "all things must come to pass" and we are in continual motion it would seem.
There is a quote by a character in one of my most favorite movies called PHENOMENON... the main character is explaining such things to a young boy and puts it thus:
"Every thing is on its way to someplace else."
Ah, and here you have painted a moving picture of your life in snapshots of time... those moments of clarity when we pause to reflect upon what IS. To me these moments of reflection of what was and awareness of what IS pull us out of the dream of life long enough to evaluate and also to adapt and adjust as needed.
One can step out of the past in an instant if one is truly ready to let it go.
"just as the one who writes this will change soon enough"
Ah, you have said it, dear Poet! I am not the same at the close of this comment as I was at the beginning.
To me that is what good poetry does... you have done that for me... even now in this moment I have grown.
PS- I have shared this with my Beloved wife - and she LOVED it!
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