To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist

. . .

Spectacular spectacles, some of us use, to see,

Others see spectacular spectacles, naturally.

Images in our mind’s eye take form,

Captured by a camera that far surpasses the norm.

The camera clicks, at the pace of your perception,

Photographs of the life, within your possession.

I cannot image, these images that you eye,

You alone can picture the life that passes you by.

Can you trust however your focus and flash?

Can you trust that your camera will ne’er crash?

Can you trust the aperture through which you see?

Can you trust your image of yourself, your personality?

Perturbed by the paparazzi, our image, we edit,

And in so doing our own interpretation of ourselves, discredit.

. . .

Granville D. Austin