to crave to be remembered
how can you hold a moment in time?
does not the very act of trying change the moment?
I remember bristling, as a kid,
when my aunt wanted to stop everything for a picture,
I changed later and realized the loss in the present
led to a gain in the future,
for decades catching moments in photos has been important to me,
letting the person, the event, the beauty within the moment
achingly hope to be held with the pictures I snap,
for me poetry is also a way to strive to hold the moment,
as I sit here now I make lists of what to do,
action more vital at this moment than contemplative musings,
the present, the past, the future, combine in a "to do" list,
my photos and my writing are ways to hold
some of the depth, the breadth, the reality
that every moment holds within itself,
moments that crave to be remembered.
by Henry H. Walker
July 22, ‘25
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