Dear Photography

Dear Photography,

I heard a picture is worth a thousand words

so with you, I decided to capture images of moments when my vocabulary has failed me.

Sometimes I find my mouth tranquilized by the seconds that left me speechless,

Reason why I write sentences in shadows, canvased by my own perception of reality

Photography,

You have shown me an access to immortality.

Photo by Seji Gaerlan/Impact Magazine

My years,

Quantitated by my new found passion that brought me aperture to provide a depth of meaning into my life

Your ISO,

protected my insecurities drowned out the noise

and I wonder if I could even ever thank you,

you’ve kept me grounded long enough to provide evidences of my existence

strapped in shutter speed.

My reality,

scribbled in the fingertips of the seconds my eyes perceived

you see,

Photo by Seji Gaerlan/Impact Magazine

I have created worlds,

spoke languages only imaginations could understand,

faces became characters of my life story

as if God has given me the power to function in between infinities

So if someone ever goes up to my face and asks me what the meaning of life is,

Image of Seji Gaerlan. Photo courtesy of Justin Gonzalez

I will look down, stretch my lips from ear to ear, smile at the idea of the things that I have created with the way I see things, hand you my pictures and tell you

This is the only meaning of life that is worth looking for.