Family portrait

Family portraits look
good on walls, like ours:

colors blend flawlessly,
as Mona Lisa is to Da Vinci;
no shadows cast; not much exposure;
plastered smile on each other’s faces
never grow old and tired―
Never! not even once;
curtains never stained, furniture’s never rust,
blinds are down; lighting’s perfect
it hides wrinkles and scars and white hairs
and the growing distance in between;
always in four corners;
always shiny underneath the thin sheet of glass;
always smiling;

never minding the loose
screws where it hangs.