Another Unfortunate Metaphor Options

[*CrackedRearView*]

Life is a black and white photograph in all of its evocative glory,
It’s a picture that some of us take and a picture that most of us examine;
How ill fated this comparison; how unfortunate is life.
Don’t consider me fatalist – it’s just fact;
Everyone packs on a smile when the cameraman’s around,
So begs the question: is it better to take or to observe?
Which is more desirable, to watch through a viewfinder the smiles of the insincere,
Or to study your own smile bearing down on you from the façade on the wall?
And then there’s society telling you
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Sure, artificiality, mendacity, hypocrisy to name a few;
Even the most destitute family smiles bright for their cherished moment,
So that those who may enter their maelstrom have only to see five sets of teeth,
Such human distress is viewable for all guests to see,
Such pain is captured in that piece of paper that society makes important.
The neutral tones of the common photograph, what irony…
Trouble follows the darkroom attendant who breathes life into a capsule of anguish –
Is it less bearable to create duplicity or to be forced to look at it forever?
Perhaps that bright flash and the millisecond of light that paints their faces with those articial smiles onto some Kodak silver is an unnecessary mockery of their family unity,
And perhaps looking at those black and white tones reminds them of their futility.
Yeah, life is a storm of insolvency and teardrops,
And it is veiled by the black and white smiles of a happy family.

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Really good!! That was really descriptive & meaningful. Good work.