I am just the negatives from the reels of your film
"Developed" isn't even in my category
I only get the chance at a glance
Then cut off and thrown away


One day I just happened to get picked up
Turned out I was held from being developed
I was just part of a practice shoot
A shot through the ink that colored me


A mistake by big shot photographer
Never looking back
Just reload for a new set
A shrug of the shoulder and on to the next project


Pose after pose after pose
Until it was no longer an interest
Discarded what could have been a masterpiece
Ignored as if I had never existed


Still inverted, left alone for all the world to pass
As if I was on hold for another
But no one ever realizing that I'll never get developed
I'll never be the image that's meant to be more than captured