Time's Veil

Time’s Veil Three smiling young girls standing by a railing overlooking a pond, staring out at me from a sepia-tinted black and white photo of indeterminate age. Each of them is holding an ice cream cone. The photo, obviously taken for these three soul-mates, as a remembrance of a happy summer afternoon at some nameless park. Their attire suggests an air of mid-nineteen twenties, but their dress is only a suggestion of that era, the actual time frame remains unknown. There are no written comments on the back of the photo to indicate identities nor location of the individuals depicted. The photo has become merely a moment in time recorded for the ages and the individuals in the photo. All have been lost, save for the image itself, into Time’s Veil. I discovered this aged photo, and dozens of others, within a rarely opened bureau drawer, while I was searching for something else. The entire ensemble of photos is a collection of my late mother’s, and, the images contained therein are the remnants of what was a small portion of her Life’s remembrances. Those remembrances remain captured, but, sadly, unrecalled, for she, and the young girls in this particular photo have all passed away. Perhaps, if ever it is discovered how to lift Time’s Veil, the memories captured within the minds of those in this photo, can again be shared within this eternity as well as the one in which these young girls now dwell.