“Alien” tells the story of what it’s like when your partner changes so radically, you don’t know who they are anymore…and sci-fi is the only way to grasp the concept of change.
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They placed a pod in a room next door
No one knew what it was for
Until it burst open and revealed a creature
Appearing human in form and feature
The same mouth, the same eyes
Looks like the perfect disguise
Yet a touch shows that you’ve changed from within
You’ve become an alien
Alien
Alien
Coiled tightly within the chest
Lies a being in deep unrest
Until it emerges in a shocking display
Leaving the world in disarray
I think I know who’s at my side as I
Look out the window and the night creeps by
Roll over as the sun streams in
To see a beautiful alien
Alien
Alien
You’re not a monster, you’re not cruel
So why do I act a like a fool
Seeing evil where there is none instead of
Accepting what you’ve become
Alien
Little green men, Cylons, Venusians
Whatever you call aliens, humans have contemplated
The existence of life on other planets since the ancient Greeks
In more recent times, books and movies
Have made the alien a fixture of popular culture
Aliens can be friendly or downright carnivorous
But what is far more disturbing is when someone you know and love
Becomes an alien before your own eyes
What do you do?
Is this change good for them?
Does it make them happy?
Can you live with it?
Will it destroy you or shatter you?
Or can you and the alien find a new place to exist
In harmony together?
It boards a spaceship and joins the crew
It learns their ways until it construes
That what it deemed a sickness is really a sign
Transformation into the light
A new you, a new life
You’ve discovered paradise
While I’m stuck here with the walls closing in
I’ve become the alien