The Alien

The Alien

By Lizette De Klerk

14%… 3G…

Wifi connections

Rogers Hotspot

…and so he was a bit older…

– it was red…so I brought along…

The nibbler, I think they called it.

That one!

Filaments, fringes, fractures, fragments, figments

Puncture, perforate, and penetrate my open corner

Conceivings, conceptions, and contemplations of no comprehension

Battle the barrier of being inside my brain

For admittance, absorption.

For acceptance.

For adherence!

Soulstrange penetrated, strange soul savagely pierced

Uncanny, unaccustomed, uncommon, unheard alien

Unexplored, untried, unpracticed alien

Unseasoned, unused, unversed alien

Unknown and unfamiliar: alien!

Unacceptably alien.

Undeniably alien.

Here! New and iconic images

Colonize the boundaries of my careful consciousness:

A lifetime of another life lived!

And supplants without much compunction

A convoluted comprehension

Affection cringes at such foundering.

When an alien, no more?

(2014-08-26) © 2014. Lizette De Klerk. All rights reserved worldwide.