A Time-Worn Photograph

. a time-worn photograph sitting on the mantel gathering dust.... fading away... . it's like an oil painting except painted in black-and-white words etched into lines of the old faces and captured forever in the hopeful eyes of the young . the dusty picture from a long long time ago sitting forgotten on the mantel whispering its stories to the empty room singing softly its songs of love and life into the night . yearning always yearning yearning for someone to know these people lived yearning for someone to care a picture deserted and despairing . maybe I should take that portrait with me no one else is reading the picture painted in words that was their life. . . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 2019 Susan Williams