Lindow Manchester

I spent this morning looking at the evaluation of the Comments Cards in the Lindow Man exhibition for October to December 2008 and there, as an example of a reflective comment from a visitor is this poem:-

It started out as a lovely day,

Birds were flittering amongst the hay,

For someone’s satisfaction I was slain,

My life was lost, they didn’t gain.

Distorted and squashed I’m here in the west,

It doesn’t stop the crowds,

I’m not at my best,

Cruel in life,

Crueller in death.

Washed down stream,

Flowing with river,

Caught in the floods,

Settled in moss,

Aged and weathered,

Man of the hills,

Mountains Loss,

The destruction of Cairns and Mounds