An Everlasting Photo Poem by FABIYAS M V

An old picture appears
on the screen. Students
stare at the raw reality.
The professor praises
the photographer's
precision and perfection.
But Kevin is criticized
at the end as usual.


Kevin creates eternity,
startles the humanity.
But he forgets to save
the black girl, blinded
by a journalistic passion.
Now he smokes, sobs,
repents for the little girl.
He bleeds from blades.

The African girl hangs
on his heart's ridgepole.
He isn't a predator, for
he commits suicide. ‘The
vulture and the little girl'
was, is, and will be a
reminder of the life lost.



*Kevin Carter is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo journalist, who committed suicide.
First published in The Literary Hatchet (Pear Tree Press, USA)