Thursday, 23 October 2025

The Brownie Box Camera | Poems of Despair

 

Despairing face trapped behind rusty lens fading in shadows – Poems of Despair by the Cyprus poet Chris Zachariou
A Face of Despair Behind Rusty Lens

“An old Brownie Box camera becomes
a mind's prison where memory fades”

I'm captive in a prison—
a Brownie Box camera—
old, rusty, silent.

It is locked but I cannot—
—or perhaps I don’t want to—
remember where I put the key.
Do I even have the key?