A Fool Not Worth Your Smile
5.24.2019
The photo was a gloss
It captured your smile
But I could not gloss over
Was a smile
I hadn’t seen for so long
Seems even there
It did not belong
The smile in the photo
I now see
Was not a smile
Intended for me
Not the smile that did not belong
But me
The photo
In its frame
Gave me frame of mind
Surrounding the images
Of another time
When I was yours
And you were mine
As were your smiles
But those photos
Got buried under bad times
Broadsided by the hard times
The you keep yours
And I keep mines
Time may not be
Measured in miles
But the photos seem
So far away
As do the smiles
You used to throw my way
Until I threw it all away
Why did I throw it all away
The photo was a gloss
Captured your smile
But I could not gloss over
How that smile was my loss
On a photo
One of many
So sad to find
I haven’t any
If a picture speaks
A thousand words
I’ve just been reminded
A thousand times
How I am a fool
A fool not worth your smile
