Friday, November 21, 2014

Photos Of The Web


Photos used to capture

A time

A place

Not alter one

Now

With the power of the internet

The power of computers

Someone’s photo is nothing more

Than an altered reality

An elusion

A mirage

Water only drinkable to the ones that are fooled

With the click of a button

All imperfections are removed

Wrinkles

Blemishes

Age

Weight

Hair color

The scars of life are gone

Leaving folks looking a lot like

Some of those TV evangelists in the 1980s

Faces plastered with makeup

Filtering what the camera would see

Plastic surgery

Facelifts

All done with the click of a button

So crisp

So perfect

No flaws

No truth 


This poem is from my book : Petals Falling

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