Old family photos
Wrinkled and faded with time
Old family photos
Faces staring back at me
Moments captured
Frozen faces from times gone by
Moments captured
Snippets of who they were once
Time held still, fixed on paper
Halides holding images of life
Souls stolen for a moment
Transfixed by lens and chemistry
Old family photos
Wrinkled bits of tin type
Sepia colors in washed out faces
Stuck and still until the flash subsides
Old family photos
People like you and me
Sitting or standing
Moments from their lives captured
So real yet untouchable
Imploring eyes rushed to make a moment
Sit here, look there, hold, flash, done
A family memory of their when now ours.
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