you finally know me - forever, I am framed
by your memories - your photos - your strange
stories and stage. against all odds, I remain the same
and perhaps, this looks like heaven to you:
blessed with eternal youth and no fear of age
a body, forever in state and forever in frame
but you trapped [me] without [me]: blood - sinew -
cartilage - carnage - replaced with a tasteful disengage -
ment to my rotting state. in here, I stagnate - I am always the same
a visual taxidermy: a view
carefully arranged, but estranged
your "Exhibit A: 'I'" will remain, forever framed
by a skew -
ed before, blurred and brittle with beige
the colours sour - but I'll always remain the same
- and finally, you can get to know me. if only you knew
I hated small spaces and no escapes: that this cage
is suffocating but forever, I am framed
to be breathing; to be alive; and
no matter how hard I die -
- I will always remain the same.
a play on a villanelle | horrorquest