Dónall Dempsey - STOLEN TIME

Happy
the photograph

lies
curled up(inside)

the box
camera

asleep &
dreaming of being

heavy with
Time &

tangled sunlight

your scarlet smile
biting into

the greenness
of an apple

that startles
with its intenseness

the dripping jewel
of honeycomb

(sunlight solidified)

we two
(Happiness personified)

the memory of it
now

eager to be
born

crisp, clear & clean on
the whitest of white

photographic paper

only for a
(sneaky) thief

to steal(not only)
the camera

& its little
box


but the photograph
to be


your stolen smile
our stolen time


that Past
(that once was ours)


a flickering shadow
sunlight staining my mind.

Dónall Dempsey

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