Captured In Real Time

The only way to capture time

Memorialize a second of time forever

To never depart from such a treasure

Ask the prisoner sitting in a cell for the rest of his life

How he sees his kids and wife

How he gives himself back to them

For the sake of remembrance

And not being able to kiss or hug him

Ask how your grandfather who suffers from Alzheimer’s

Can ever remember the face of his own kin

When lucid and remembering

How the bride never forgets that moment her husband to be

Says I do, till death do us part

How the new business owner is able to track the thief

Who wasn’t aware that the hidden camera above the safe

He robbed, was on

See photography is far more than technology

Because time always moves on

Take your baby picture for example

And the phenomenon of aging or

Deteriorating

A photograph tracks it all

It serves as evidence in a court of law

That can mean freedom and justice for all

Or the final fall

It serves memory

Existence

Remembrance

And for some

It is all they have left to hang onto

Take the father who has never met his child

But carries his picture everywhere he goes within his wallet

For the day he can reveal to his child

Upon meeting for the first time

That he has kept his child with him always

Just as he has his heart

Take the picture a soldier in the battlefield holds

Before he finally departs

Being able to peer upon the one who is dearest to his heart

Before it ceases to beat, due to shots fired

Sometimes a photo is the only thing to remain

After a fire has burned down one’s house

Making that memoir more golden

Than the fire that claimed all of one’s belongings

A photo is a frozen memory in time

That is more tangible and real than what sometimes

Memory can find….

Preserve your life through photos

And you can pass your legacy and memories down

Never to be forgotten or imagined

But captured in real time…