Picture This

 

Picture me, picture you. 

A picture's worth a thousand words--it's true!

 

Picture pixels dancing through,

Myriad colors, shades, and hue. 

 

Picture lifetimes brought to view,

A thousand pictures, give or take afew. 

 

A fading memory of lives longlost. 

A picture worth keeping, valued farbeyond its cost. 

 

A picture is as old as the caves ofman,

Drawn to gain power over the unknown.

 

Draw a picture with words if you can,

The reader will need mind's eye tofill in. 

 

The gaps that words cannot describe,

Like time erases the stone carver'sscribe. 

 

Picture a memory so vivid and true,

That lasts only the lifetime of me oryou. 

 

Pictures on paper, canvas and stone,

Will eventually fade until they areunknown. 

 

But when a picture is electronicallycoded,

It can be copied and transportedwithout being eroded. 

 

To dance through the ether until theend of time,

Recovered in an instant, like new andso fine.

 

Copyright 2001 © Ronald W.Hull

12/2/01