Photo-Not-Graphing Emotions

Take a look at this picture

a decrepit boy smiling

is it life placing contentment?

or the photographer

is he happy to be alive?

or is his self starvation fueled

by the insults

You should be an actress

grace the screen with beauty

forging a fallacy

this is a partnership

and I want to know

what's behind the photograph

because if you are dying

I want to die with you

Please take me to the crevice

where you fallen

and carry me to your achievements

at the top of a mountain

where we can scream our mistakes

and listen to the echoes of

compliance

It's up to ourselves

to paint a self portrait

of emotions

and hand it to the ones

who care

we can only save ourselves

by bursting through the frame

we can only save ourselves