Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Photo album comical poem 753 by Angela Lansbury

 Do you see that young man looking at me

That knowing look, of impish glee

You wouldn't believe the prizes I won

Such fun, you won't believe what I'd done


But now my lover has gone away

Old and bald, wrinkled and grey

I like to imagine him waiting for me

Impatiently, in purgatory


Now the men of my grand old age

Think that they are always right

And everybody else is wrong

They go out looking for a fight


Time moves on and life goes on

Maybe it's for the best, we wouldn't get on

And yet that photo tells the story

Of the joys of youth and our moment of glory


He made night day and he made day night

He made white black and he made black white

He made right wrong and he made wrong right

He made light dark and he made dark light


Do you see that young man looking at me

That moment caught by photography

Preserved as a permanent memory

Of the joy I was and will always be.

-ends-

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