Photograph

I am not a photograph

I am much more than the moments captured on camera

I frown more than you see

I wake up looking much worse, and I go to bed looking more tired

The closer you get to the real me, the less you see in a frame

I am not a photograph

When you pick up that 4x6, or slide through an album

That is one moment of one day of one part of the rest of my life

Don’t make me a saint, don’t make me a devil

Don’t close me in farther than I already put myself

I am not a photograph

I might try to share myself through selfies

I might present myself to you in a way you’d like

But don’t let it stop there

Because only part of the truth is a lie—don’t let me lie to you