Will You Still Love Me Knowing I Lack Humanity? - A poem

Will You Still Love Me Knowing I Lack Humanity?

The embodiment of death

A start and yet an end

Older than the universe

A forgotten alien god
Is what I truly am

A tentacle that can’t hold your hand

A body too cold to press against

Memories of millions of lives

Inside a glass jar older than time

Implanted in my left iris

I cannot relate to humanity

Your feelings are alien to me

I do not know what it is you see

Inside this vessel I called “me”

A form that cannot be perceived

Manifesting as an alien

If you look at me too long

Then you will turn into stone,

then ash,

then fog

Soon enough you’ll become a paper doll

You are not prepared

To see the surreal,

perceive the unreal

Please don’t look at me

With eyes of kindness

Your soft voice filled the air…

As if I wasn’t here

You stare across my form

My feelings not ignored

Your footsteps fill my “ear”

A hand offered to me

As if you couldn’t see

The vessel I call “me”

And took my shaking “hand”

I didn’t understand

I couldn’t understand

Your heart was slowing down

Surely it was the end

But you gave me a look

Holding my freezing form

Inside your warm embrace

You said it was okay

If you died this way

Cause all you’d ever need

Is to hold me like this

The embodiment of death

A start and yet an end

Older than the universe

A forgotten alien god
Is what I truly am

I swam into the sky

Leaving you behind

Before you turned to stone

then ash, then fog,

and a paper doll

I’ll be fine alone

It’s all I’ve ever known

But if we met again

Please don’t look at me

Take my shaking hand

And become eternity