Photo Album

Click, click, click of the camera lens
perfect smile, perfect face, perfect place

a chronology of time in freeze frame
from toothless grin to curious toddler

up through the awkward years
with braces and skin blemishes

through the scowl and glare of adolescence
at high school dances and senior prom

young adulthood exhibiting greater confidence
and self esteem, then comes that special girlfriend,

he falls in love then marries to settles down,
before too long there he is holding a little one

It seems like a few minutes in the photo album
turning decades with each page

a lifetime caught in pictures along the way.