I am a homunculus

I am a homunculus

wet, slimy yet smooth body

taking a chunks out of me

to give to one another

my arms, my limbs

and watch them all use it

I try to rebuild what was given

what was lost, what was wasted

only to be met with tolerance

I am supposed to be anything

I am supposed to be something

why do I live with my every being

missing into nothing

 into everything

I could've turned them into feathers

I could've made my own wings

I could've made my own home

I could've been an important thing

yet I took it too far

all because my heart says so

I wonder what happens

if I one day I don't listen to it

if one day my words became weapons

my hands became thorns

my heart became stone

but I know for myself, 

I would always choose

choose to be kind

I would always care,

would always love

but now at least I learned

I learned to use my heart

I learned to love deeply

And I learned to love wisely

And to love myself freely

I am a homunculus

a disgusting being

trying to be something

alive yet incomplete

walking yet dreaming

all from something

into nothing

I am almost human

- lee firefly