Alien Earthling

I’ll never forget the day

I crash landed on this wretched planet

This charming catastrophe

:

God, I love her so much

:

The dichotomy of

everything

I could ever ask for

with a dash of

“I’ve had enough.”

:

I guess that’s why I came back again

I suppose I’m a slut for experience

of this earthly stuff

:

In a body made of skin

I remember the wind

rushing past my flesh

:

I remember watching the stars

get smaller and smaller

as I approached for landing

:

I would have braced for impact

but I was too busy

trusting the fall

:

Like a meteor

I ripped a hole into the ceiling

of my parents' home

:

There was no sound

or maybe my new ears

just couldn’t perceive it then

:

Laying in my new home

in a physical body

on a strange, beautiful planet

I looked back up into the sky

from which I fell

:

Through the hole in the ceiling

I remembered where I came from

and why I was here again

:

Then I looked to my left and to my right

to see the people I was given to

:

They looked so peaceful when they were sleeping

but I immediately felt something was wrong

:

My eyes shot open with adrenaline

back up through the ceiling

as I saw it shift back into the roof of our house

:

When the ceiling fan snapped back into place

there was a face that smiled at me

then slipped away

:

Lightning surged through my veins

I awoke for the first time

in this human body

:

“Mom, dad, I fell from the sky!”

“There’s someone in the fan watching over me!”

:

“It was just a dream."

"Go back to sleep.”