Missing Time

Assignment was to look at our favorite photograph and write a reflection on how we feel about it now.

Missing Time

-Geneva Willis-

In this photograph is the happy childhood I can never get back.

In this photograph is the time I lost.

It's missing.

Simple, plain, and gone.

In this photograph is the freeze-frame society of images.

In this photograph is the past family.

It's missing.

Complex, frigid, and dead.

In this photograph is a garden of vibrant, veridian greens.

In this photograph is my smile.

Now it's missing.

Distraught, puzzled, and silent.

This is a piece of my missing time-

there upon the hill,

overlooking bronze-cast horses

and twisting fingers through waves of hair.

It's all missing.

My time is missing.