Black and white
Life and death
All those shades of grey
Only alive in the living
A moment illuminated
Captured then lost
Open to interpretation
By any viewer who chooses
To look and see more
Than black and white
Life and death
Lost in the greys of time.
The picture by the coffin
Mute testimony
To all that has gone
To all that remains
Like a thought unspoken
That goes on forever.