Picture Poem by Kevin Carney

Look at that picture…
So faded the light.
A tale of beauty…
Look at that face.
Can you really believe?

A picture worth a thousands words…
It’s all I can do to take my eyes away.
You told me long ago we were drawn together…
God knows why… just look at me?
I stare into your image.

In a way it makes me sad.
I just don’t know where we should be…
I know we can never be.
What would you do if we kissed?
On this night of the soft summers rain.

Could you bear my deep embrace?
It’ll be so tender…
Something you are not used to…
Can you see it in the same way I see?
Could you believe in all of the todays?

To be able to forget all the yesterdays?
Was I was wrong to feel this way?
Should I have taken all the good times?
To put them aside and cherish them?
Never to forget those fine memories…