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33mm | Poem


RatheeshSundaram
photographed by Ratheesh Sundaram

My world is small and raw.

I don’t capture it in retrospect

I only seize the sweetness of the present,

to relive it in retrospect


My world is small

but

through a 33mm window of glass,

it looks larger than life

Light is sometimes my friend

on the others,

darkness of shadows comes to my rescue


Through a 33mm peephole,

I monitor the blurriness of my sight,

slowly and patiently, kissing

a unique dial at my fingertips,

I bring even the edge of the cosmos

into sharp focus


My world is small

nothing gets missed

nothing gets misplaced

within my vicinity of expansion


Nothing.


Through a 33mm square

I embark to witness everything

learn the deep-wide secrets of the universe

the subject and the object are only a

moment of impermanence

timelessly captured


Even Hell begins to express its

hidden Heaven, under the gaze

of a 33mm eye-way


My world is small

only the size of a 33mm viewfinder

an analogue camera, twisting

and turning the reel of my life,

to capture an element of the beyond,

in you,

to reveal me


There will come a day

a surprise flash

the last shutter click

My small world of

black and white playground

will be set to rewind and release


Through the 33mm standpoint

I would have left the film compartment

empty


Empty

for nobody to take my place

or dial up and down the shutter speed

but

a gallery of emotions unsaid seized

to make this world a better place


My world would have been small

but

the snapshot of my love

will reverberate any still heart


P.S. 2mm is lost to Wine 🍷 XOXO RN💋

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