Photo-Not-Graphing Emotions

Take a look at this picture
a decrepit boy smiling
is it life placing contentment?
or the photographer
is he happy to be alive?
or is his self starvation fueled
by the insults

You should be an actress
grace the screen with beauty
forging a fallacy
this is a partnership
and I want to know
what's behind the photograph
because if you are dying
I want to die with you

Please take me to the crevice
where you fallen
and carry me to your achievements
at the top of a mountain
where we can scream our mistakes
and listen to the echoes of
compliance

It's up to ourselves
to paint a self portrait
of emotions
and hand it to the ones
who care
we can only save ourselves
by bursting through the frame
we can only save ourselves