I See You

You were seventeen when I first saw you, in a club surrounded by your friends. I was a photography student and I asked you if I could take your picture. That was ten years ago and I've been seeing you and photographing you ever since. I see you through my camera, I see and know your poses, your face, your body, I see how you've changed over the years, I see how your clothes change, your hair, I see you relocating, I see frenzied arguments, I see new men, old men, shared men, I see joint plans, I see goodbyes, separations, abortions, I see our everyday life and again and again I see you in the photos I have taken of you over the years. I see you as a teenager and as a grown woman. Me the photographer, you, the photographed became friends and I see your expression in the photos and I notice, you have seen me too in the last ten years.