Alien Feelings

Shattered, splinters of midnight

caressing and glancing off skin.

White, frozen beams of moonlight

that spotlight two strangers dancing.

Electric blue, cutting through mist

as a small, fair hand is held near –

then a blinding flash as two lovers kiss

and a slow, gentle, ebbing of fear.

Eyes drawing near, then cutting like lasers

as tracks of tears melt on her face.

She can’t understand his inhuman phases.

He can’t understand her strange ways.

Then, like passing stars they orbit and leave

and their traces are hidden again.

He can’t live in an atmosphere where he can’t breathe

and she can’t bear his alien pain.

Close encounter with an alien feeling,

emotion built up – though they have no hearts.

A soul cut open, with no chance of healing,

their two worlds are drifting apart.

But memories record each tender moment

and they find that, someday, just by chance,

stars do collide and that supernova

activates a long-lost romance.