Photograph

Take a photograph and settle down

To endure not as hard as it looks

Better not to burn those books

You're not travelling on a beam of light

You're not sitting around under house arrest until you change your mind

Not a blink, not a breath, not a sign, not a sign, not a sign

Not a sign

Take a photograph to remind you

Of the things you know you will one day forget

Take a side effect as a measure of your progress

Take what you give and give what you take

And as you walk with your breath two feet in front of you in the cold

Take a photograph, to have and to hold

Take a photograph, to have and to hold

Take a photograph