a picture is worth a thousand words

Tonight I am thinking in colors
writing seems almost lackluster, compared to the brilliant saturating images floating behind my mind's eye
I itch to pick up a camera
take a shot
paint a picture
brilliantest blue and a gentle wash of yellow and highlights of red
as though the photo itself were laughing
as the breeze ran through its hair

Tonight I want a different medium
to be creating images directly
shutter click flash and whirl
instead of to be describing endlessly form, function, relative placement and lighting
every detail having to be compressed into words
in a vain attempt to show what I see fully
to translate a visual from behind my eyes to behind yours

maybe I should pick up some film