Let’s say there is a couple
Let’s say they are happy.
Until one day that is…
Let’s say the girl just woke up
And find the boy she’s with
Utterly repulsive
Like waking up from a dream,
A very long dream
She wakes up with an alien
That’s what she thinks
His smell, it’s irritating
The hair on his arms
The nape of his neck
Even the way his body heaves while he sleeps
The hair at the back of his head
It’s all painfully odd; unsettling
Between her and him
Side by side on the bed
There’s a chasm, an abyss
It’s the crazy phase of her mind
Things became so familiar
That it had become strange
And suddenly she was afraid
Who is this person
Lying with her on the bed?
Her heart was dead
Her mind blank
The image was all
And all was an image
The tick-tock of the clock
Echoing in her head
It was an image of him
But not of him
There was panic
And she was afraid
What is happening?!
The ground shook
The earth cracked open
Her past and future crumbling
Into the fissure slowly falling
All that’s left is the image
Of a strange creature on her bed
Knowingly unknown to her
Yet her tears started falling
Something is wrong, she knows.
June 2007
