Revisions

If you look at the photographs now,
everything seems so easy.
Who would not have grabbed camera
and framed it just so?
What could have been more obvious,
more simple?
Gone is the torment,
gone the doubt,
gone the feelings of unworthiness.
Even I, who held the camera,
can hardly make myself recall.
It must have been a magic day,
that day,
when all these people thought to stop by,
when all the women were lovely and strong,
the men weathered by character,
the light obedient and swift and wise.

Ron Erwin
                                                                            copyright 2019

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