THE SHUTTER

THE SHUTTER

What happens in the world

When we blink?

What goes on,

When the camera lens clicks?

It might be something very important

We miss, when the shutter flicks.

If we blink twelve times

In a minute,

And take hundreds of photos

Every year,

That’s hours of life we’re missing,

The darkness can fill one with fear.

Is there

Somebody we never see,

Who only comes out

When the shutter comes down?

They may be the ghosts,

Who are haunting our town.

We are

Losing time in our life

To darkness,

Though, we can make ourselves gain a day.

Run the opposite way to how the earth spins,

And keep the shutters darkness at bay.

Phil Hall April 2013