Falling Behind

Behind the door

A rectangle creamy cloth covered pin board crisscrossed with pearl ribbon and shell buttons strewn across convergence points lay fading photos of various sizes.

Behind the door, you see

Not all happy frozen faces and various scenic places. You see a pin stuck in.

Behind the door you see a red pin-

That says ‘I am loved’-it was never yours, but you keep it anyway.

Behind the door, the 9 pictures show 3 of a boy, 2 of a baby girl, a sleeping cat, a couple, a pair

Behind the door,

Two postcards, both with boats act as if they were there, as pictured. They were not. Nor were you.

Behind the door,

A memory board hides of someone’s life as though it were yours collaged with fragments of other particles collided that were made of you and them before annihilating solidly into new matter, put this way, in this structure, pinned in place

Behind the door, Lies

closed. 

You cannot picture it. 

Image of painting by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts (fl. 1660–1683) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.