The Land of Poems

Seeing Only With Your Eyes Hides the Truth

Look at that picture
Can you describe it to me?

What do you mean?
It's in front of you
As you can clearly see

I know
But what does it truly mean?

It's just a group of women washing their clothes
At what appears to be a river side

And that's all you see?
Don't you think that there's something else in disguise?

What you you mean?
There's nothing more to see
I described it and I told you what it means

Did you really?
Your answer walk quit blank

Ok, you have ago
Describe it to me because I'm clearly not seeing what it means

Yes,  you can see women washing their clothes at a river side
But the back story is so more define

Because it tells you about the past
It tells you about your elders
What your loved ones had to bare

But my grandmother never had to do any of that
She had servants
She had a whole staff at her command

Yes, but this introduces you to a different life
A life where money was not kind
And they had to survive with their bare minimum

Although they didn't have much
They made due with what they had
And even though that was the case
Their smiles and laughter remained real
No fairy tale

When I think about this picture
I think about all the memories they must have made
What happened at the river side
Or what happened along the way

So my friend a picture holes much more than what is seen
You need to let your imagination run free
Don't only focus on what you see
Because other tales lerk beneath