If a Picture's Worth a Thousand Words...

There's a photograph of you on my wall- nestled
into the other
long-ago
pictures taken. I can't hear the collage of voices
anymore, but your smile
is the first to somehow steal the eye
of every person who looks on the collaboration on my wall.
Somehow..
it never goes away, yet I
can't remember what made you smile that way
in the first place. I'd like to think
it was the noticeable result of
something
first grasped and never forgotten, everything
I didn't see but snapped the shot anyway.
But I don't think it was that...
Tell me why you smile. Tell me
why it never
ever
fades away like the others- time worn,
and lonely. Tell me why
a broken spirit does soar when
it takes only one glance. It matches the color
of the sky,
and trickles like crystal water
down
my walls. Goodnight, sweet smile-
be here when
I wake.