Trick of the Light?

For a departed friend

I thought I saw your shadow on the wall

 

Certainty was a given, but not anymore

 

There, but now I can't be certain; just a trick of the light?

 

Were you real?  Did you really exist?

 

All I've got left is this photograph,

 

And even in that I no longer trust what I see

 

Somehow seems paltry for a life well lived

 

 

 

Reviews

[Marie]

A camera records faithfully what it takes, but you can't trust what it makes you remember.

[Michael Stevens]

So true; thanks Marie!