Youth is but a Kodak Moment

I can be a young person in an old photo,

or an old person in a young photo,

but I can no longer be a young person in a young photo.

~

It came to me with some surprise,

And even brought some heavy sighs,

Today when I did realize,

The rule above to me applies.

I don’t know when it happened,

But it happened all the same.

What I once was, I am no more,

Within a picture frame.

It must have been that Kodak paper,

To have caused a thing so strange.

All I know is that my photos,

Underwent a frightening change.