To Love a Human

I don’t know how to talk to you

Because you are human

And I have been stripped

Of that identity

Melted by the lack of sun

Atrophied in numbness

Sitting on my own

Away from mortal beings like you

Consumed by my own darkness

I am something alien

Incapable of loving you

Because I cannot love myself

Lost to the tremors

Of my own blackened stillness

I cannot reach for you

Or begin to save myself

From what time has taught me

Is the inevitable leaving

Of anything and anyone

The doomed heart of this humanoid

Even slightly begins to love