Stuart Robertson - Photographer
Echoing mr gray
Self-portrayed in reflective light
More revealing
Than the mirror’s naked gaze
Persona chosen to impress upon
Product of your very own volition
No slight return
To tried and tired convention
Wishing to defy outer decay
And inner demons
With a single shutter blink
Lasting longer than
Last week’s memories
A fidelity subject to change
No thought or action without contradiction
The skewed clarity of one beer too many
Preaching provocation
Leering, barbarous
Inebriated truths unleashed
Interrogating the inner sober civil man
Playfully swiping at all’s perceptions
Target the casually indifferent
Formless shadows
Comfortably acting on scripted rituals
Experience makes that outer man
A given fact resistant to dressing-up
Each occasion thickening calloused armour
Bland brittle strength
Cast iron susceptible to single blows
Broken down, crazing pattern cracked
Embryonic new beginnings
Emerging
From now redundant shattered shell casing
