The Picture

People looking at us
Through windows of the past
Showing how things were
Our live in contrast

Who are these people
Who stare at me
And when they look back
What do they see

Kindness and compassion
Or fearful desperation
A man of strange fashion
Or an odd fascination

These people in the picture
Who hangs on the wall
Pictures like memories
That help to recall

The times and people that have gone before us…