A Photo

A photo is all we have

But a photo is never enough

A photo can’t wrap its arms around your neck

Nestle its head in the nape of your neck

Have the soft downy baby hair to feel

Wrap its tiny fingers around your thumb

Bounce, giggle, cry and play.

A photo can’t show you the changing colours of your eyes

Show the changing colour of your hair

Grow the first set of teeth

Sit up, roll over, crawl, or try to walk

It can’t light up the room with a smile

It can’t beam at you

Or scream at you

It can’t do any of these things

There are no baby smells to smell,

No warmth to cuddle

Nothing to squeeze tight to your heart

A photo is a small tiny picture in a big huge world

It captures one small moment in time

That moment is what we have to make last a lifetime

As that is all we have