PAD – Day 3 Depth of Field – Delaina J. Miller

Hello everyone;

I did say "haphazardly" participating in the April PAD Challenge. This is why day one is being posted after day two.
Day 1 prompt of "write an optimistic poem"

Not Dead Yet, Me

Is it really such a tragedy
that my sentences are raggedy
words tread together by similarity?
The conversation is still defiantly
expressions of me.

Is it really such a travesty
that I wander aimlessly?
When I can travel through time so easily
…our life history
…a life lived outrageously.

Is it really such a disparity
that I have forgotten the melody
of your name? Still there’s some clarity….
I know the feelings of family
and passions intensity.

Is it really such an indignity
that something once familiar is now a novelty.
Or that simple tasks escape me.
I still dance to life’s jamboree
and sing majestically.

Is it really such a finality
even as I become more absentee?
There is plenty of life in my legacy.
Don’t bother writing my eulogy,
when there’s still time to create a memory.

©2024 Delaina Miller

Depth of Field

You fit in my hand
and stand out in a crowd.
With a slight flick of my thumb
you come to life in my palm.
One dial pushed to the left you open full
ready to take in every delicate detail
the subject has to bare.
A turn to the right your focus becomes tight.
My excitement hard to contain
with the lunar peep show you bring me.
Pressure light then firm
we capture moments for eternity.