Saturday, August 11, 2012

Tin Types

Old photographs spread on a desk, the faces portrayed unknown.  A collection of lost memories outlining someone's lost life.  Treasured belongings spread among friends and relatives.  Memories of why those things were treasured lasting only a generation, maybe two.  In time, the physical remains of a life pass out of mind, the name remaining only in old records.

Each life lived with hopes and dreams, important with choices and plans.  But except for very few, fading away and lost in time.  'Lost but not Forgotten' on a gravestone, but no one remembers the name written above it.