Sunsets

a graphic poem

by Jim Bennett

 

In photograps
all sunsets look the same
but I have seen so many
and all of them are different
you cannot photograph
the way it makes you feel
but you can feel that way
when you look at the photograph
 
even if it looks
like a thousand other sunsets
but if you put that sunset
on a billboard
it is just another sunset
 
to everyone
apart from you
you cannot photograph
death
smells
anger
pain
or starvation
you can photograph the effect
you can show stick figures
frozen as they walk aimlessly
with sunken empty eyes
towards their death
 
put that on a poster
post for everyone to see
till it becomes
just another figure
walking to their death
eventualy
it's just like another sunset
to everyone
 
but it isn't is it?