I Like to Take Pictures: Colin Creevey
I like taking pictures.
Some people find it annoying,
Others funny,
Some even mad.
When I was born,
Mom took pictures of everything to remember.
She said,
A picture holds a thousand words.
Later when
She became sick.
She would stare at the pictures for hours,
And cry.
She had a disease,
Which she gave to me.
I was ten when they found out,
I was to die.
In,
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Years
I never tell anyone about the six
Years left in my life.
For I know they would cry,
And cry,
And cry,
And cry,
I don't like it when people cry,
Like dad,
And Dennis,
And the doctors.
I never cry,
I take pictures of things,
I will never live to do.
Like kissing a girl,
And wearing a size two shoe,
And smiling without a care in the world,
And talking about growing old.
I don't think.
Just take pictures,
That mean a thousand words,
So I can look at them all day,
And finally cry.
If someone would ask me why
I don't cry,
I don't know what I'd say
Maybe I'd just look at them and say:
"I'm waiting for six years,
In the hospital.
To lie awake at night,
And die."
But no one ever asks why.