Please DO NOT TOUCH

I am human

designed for so much

I am human

made to touch and be touched

Like a clock made to tick

and give rhythm to our hours

Like a plane built to fly

Like a seed born to flower

I am human

made to feel and be felt

But he took me and place me

like an artifact on a shelf

The cruelest of acts

with the purest intention -

to preserve the full beauty

of his one prized possession

He fixed me on a pedestal

behind a glass pane

My entire world

now confined to a frame

Like a statue I stood

unable to prove

that I was still human

though yet so far removed

Like a plane decomissioned

no longer able to fly

my tank had dried up

no longer able to cry

So NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

and please DO NOT TOUCH

these homosapien remains

designed for so much

---

originally written 2nd February 2017