frozen faces

Time's cruel march, a relentless thief,
Steals the faces I once knew,
Trapped within these frozen frames,
Their essence fades, no longer true.

The smiles that once so brightly shone,
Dim with the weight of years gone by,
Expressions frozen, a facade,
Concealing truths that make me sigh.

These photographs, a cruel charade,
Trapping souls in a timeless game,
The faces that I cherished so,
Are not the same, no longer the same.

I yearn to reach beyond the glass,
To touch the lives that once were mine,
But time's relentless, ceaseless flow,
Has left these faces, no longer here in time.

How I wish I could rewind,
And hold those moments, pure and bright,
But, they are trapped, beyond my grasp,
Frozen in time, a fading light.