Magic Window

I was recently intrigued looking at Audrey Hepburn photographs.

She never looked at the camera, she looked beyond the camera to see us.

What is a photograph,
An idea in the present,
An image in the past,
A moment captured,
Forever held,
A window through time.

She did not see the camera,
Looking beyond,
Looking past the photographer,
Looking past the device,
Looking into our hearts,
She saw you and me.

She turned a skill and a gift,
Into a way to share love,
Love multiplied,
Love shared among many,
Love magnified,
To our hearts from hers.

Time teaches us illusions,
Teaching she is not here,
While love teaches differently,
Knowing no bounds of time,
Nor life or death,
Knowing she feels our love.

We learn from her eyes,
Looking for the good in us,
We look for the good in others,
Bringing joy as natural as hers,
As we learn to share love,
Beyond time and space.

Her heart learned from us,
Thinking she was just a girl,
Yet one heart can change the world,
Our world changed through her,
She showed that we can do the same,
Through the window of love.