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Photograph By Charlotte Wald Copyright 1999 Charlotte Wald

A prize-winning poem about a photograph's bridge to Charlotte's past.

Could I have been that girl So many years ago, Smiling, joyous, loving In youthful enthusiasm? Ways I could yet be Were it not for solitude.   Gone are children, lovers, friends, old lives, Once a family gathered together Like planets in the heavens.   I was the sun.   Now, separate - each in his own world. Coming together, parting. Creating new lives, new beginnings.   I watch in twilight years As my life unfolds In them anew.   I am the moon.