Do you remember the day they took this photograph?
One moment in a lifetime, frozen by the camera’s click.
No grey hairs, no middle-aged spread.
Firm, young bodies, fingers entwined.
I wore red – you laughed and said it matched my eyes.
You’re wearing that black shirt,
The one I bought you for Christmas.
And faded Levi’s.
Remember the record playing at the time?
The love song that we danced to,
Just before they said, “Say cheese!”
And we stopped and faced the camera,
Straightened our hair and smiled.
Your arm is around my shoulder,
Proudly telling the world “She’s mine”.
And I’m laughing up at you,
With bedroom eyes, filled with love and lust.
Maybe we loved too much.
Crashed and burned like a shooting star in midnight skies.
For the love song stopped playing,
And the dancing came to an end.
Yet they say the camera never lies.
And as I grow older,
I’ll never forget that for one small moment in time,
You loved me.
Do you know I loved you too?
And that, despite the passing years,
I still do.