OLD PHOTOS - soul poetry

I'm looking at an old photo

A three-year-old little blonde girl

Serious, focused

Observer

In the next frame, an eight-year-old girl

Pink dress, blonde hair

Staring somewhere into the distance

As if into another world

Another black-and-white portrait of a child

This girl is fourteen years old

Courage is in the eyes

Tomorrow, adulthood

Time travel and a journey through time

This girl is a traveler

I met her once

I knew her once

But that was at a different time

And as if on another planet

As if in another life

It was a different dream

I'm looking at old photos

And I see a girl on a journey

A long time ago today

I know her, even though I don't know her

I used to be that girl

Today it's just a photograph

But there is the girl

And the journey continues

©KatarzynaNK (Catherine)

June 1st, 2024

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Old Photos - soul poetry

a poem from the book of poems I AM

author: Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk

translation: Elizabeth Kanski

originally in Polish: Stare Fotografie

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in Polish and English

Old Photos // read in Polish by the author