Neville

Stuck

Stuck

 

I am stuck

Stuck here

Like one of those

Now extinct blue butterflies

Pinned through the middle

And hung in the showcase of some

Obscene natural history display

 

I am stuck

Stuck here

Like a medal pinned

Posthumously to the breast

Of some fallen warrior or hero in No Mans Land

 

I am stuck

Stuck here

Transfixed and beginning to fray

Compelled to be as still as museum air

Inadvertently providing theatre

For unsuspecting voyeurs