The PhotoGraph Wall...

by Hailey   Sep 30, 2004


Look At The Photograph's
Hanging On The Wall
Representing So Many Things
One By One They Fall

Ill Take You for A Tour
On My Picture Place
Ill Put Each Picture
To A Name And Face

But Please Be Quiet
These Pictures Are Real
They Live And They Breathe
They Hurt And They Feel

So I'm Starting The Tour
Ill Show Them One By One
And If They Scare You
Please Oh Please Don't Run

Heres My Very First Photograph
It Was The Happiest Ive Ever Been
Christmas Day When I Was seven
Look At All The Smiles To Be Seen

That Girl Disappeared Long Ago
She Isn't Here Any More
Oh Wait There Goes That Picture
It Falls Onto The Floor

Oh Well Heres My Next Picture
I Think Thats When I Was Eight
I Was Going To The Beach
And Boy Oh Boy Was I Late

But The Beach Is Gone Now
From My Memory At least
It Was Erased And Taken Over
Captured By That Beast

Oh Wait Goodbye Photograph
It Doesn't Hang There Anymore
Erased With Time It Is Blank
As Its Fallen To The Floor

Well Heres My Next Picture
Its My Birthday Party When I Turned Nine
By That Time I Could Do Most Things
Run,Jump and Colour Between the Lines

Well Do You See All The Laughter
And How Everyone Wheres A Smile
I Cant Say Ive Smiled In A Long Time
Or Laughed Like That In Some While

But Like All The Rest
That Photo Has Started To Disappear
Being Erased By Memories
And All The Things I Now Fear

Well Ive Got Lots More Pictures
Were Getting Into The Older Years
This Is When The Heartbreak Starts
The Troubles And All The Tears

Heres A Picture From When I Was Eleven
I Thought I Owned The World
I Wonder What It Would Be Like
To Again Be Just A Little Girl

But I Remember Being Happy That Day
When I Took That Picture For This Wall
Never In a Billion Zillion Years
Did I Ever Think That Smile Would Fall

But Well That Picture Has Gone
Its On The Floor With The Rest
Like All My childhood Photos
I Know I Liked Those Years Best

Heres A Picture When i Was Twelve
Now Thats When Trouble Hit
I Had Just Started High school
And Was Getting Into Shit

I Took That Photo With all My So Called Friends
One Day when I Was At School
Being In The Popular Crowd
We All Knew We Were Cool

But That Photo Has Fallen Also
Its Now Nothing But Blank And White
Like All The Other Photos
Its Now Faded From My Site

Oh Well There's More of The Tour
There Isn't alot To Go
But There's Stories Behind These Photograph's
That You Should Really Know

Heres A Photo When I Was Thirteen
Its Taken Outside Of A Pizza Place
That Boy With His Arm Around Me
Disappeared Without A Trace

See The Smile On My Lips
I Was In Love So Deep And True
But Like All The Rest
That Photo Has Disappeared Too

Heres A Photo 5 Days Before I Turned Fourteen
I Was In The Park That Night
Thats When The Photo's Starting Fading
But Nothing Was Ever Again Alright

That Photo Was Taken That Night
When I Was Raped By A Friend
You Know The Boy From The Other Photo
His Best Mate Put My Life To An End

But Like All The Other Pictures
They've Become Blank Memories in Time
Way Back To When i Was In Love
Even To The Very Birthday i Turned Nine

Thats Where The Tour Stops
Because I'm Yet To Turn Fifteen
I Wont Live To Take That picture
My Life Is Finished And Unseen

I Hope You Liked The Tour
Of My Picture Perfect Wall
I'm Sorry That There's No More Photos
But Eventually They had To Fall

So You've Seen My Photo Wall
Its Not Much Proof That I Really Lived A Life
Oh Wait There's One More Photo
Its A Picture When I Turned 15 With A Knife

See Me In That Photograph
I'm Smiling Like I Always Wanted To Be
But Thats The Last Photograph On This Wall
That Anyone Will Ever Get To See

But Now The Tours Over
And The Photo's Aren't In Sight
The Pictures End Of My Fifteen Birthday
And With What I Did That Night

So I Hoped You Liked The Tour
Of The Photograph's That Captured My Life
A Camera Captured All These Moments
But The Last Moment With A Knife

The Photo Wall has Gone Now
There's No More Photos To Show
And All the Others Pictures I Have
Are Ones No-One Will Ever Know.....

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  • 19 years ago

    by MAYBE TOMORROW

    great work

    love to hear what u think about mine

    sadistic lullaby

  • 19 years ago

    by Cristi

    damn i love how you wrote this poem and thanks for commenting on my poetry

  • 20 years ago

    by BIGBIRD

    this is *one* of your great poems! keep em coming hails

  • 20 years ago

    by xCrImSoNxTeArSx

    OMG!!! Again another great poem of yours...I can relate to what your getting at with your poem and the pictures being nothing but faded memories now.
    mwa!!!

  • 20 years ago

    by Andrea

    wow....that was excellent! i love how you written this.