Girl on the Edge of the Photograph

Stocki continues to be inspired by Lins life and in turn, with his gift with words, inspire us all. He told me that as he sifted through his photos Lins was always on the edges of photos. He told me that he believed this was an analogy of her life. Even though she could have carried of the centre screen so easily, she chose the edges, the margins - seeing the things many of us, who were too busy looking our photograph taken, missed; silently doing the ordinary stuff extraordinarily well. She was kind - simple as that.

Girl on the edge of the photograph
Who always seemed so distracted
The gift of your mischievousness
Was what left you so unaffected.

Girl on the edge of the photograph
Who could have been centre screen
The beauty about her beauty
Was she knew what beauty means.

Girl on the edge of the photograph
A heart with peripheral vision
The strength of your contrariness
Touched the corners of this world’s derision.

Girl on the edge of the photograph
Who you could so easily miss
But not by those who watched you bow
To give their soul a kiss.

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