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My Immigrant Lover

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She came straight out of Africa Met her on the dunes of the Levant To my neanderthal anima Her shapely form and sophistication did enchant Entwined with a sultry homo sapien As we chill through the Pleistocene But I won't be there to see it end So will you still love me into the Holocene And my fears erode, my love 'Cause I'm now in your genetic code, my immigrant lover Might have been your kind, my love Who brought about my decline, my immigrant lover I may be extinct, my love But I live on through our link, my immigrant lover I don't fear the void, my love 'Cause our fates are now conjoined, my immigrant lover He came straight out of planet Earth Met him in a bar of a Jovian moon The songs and stories that I've heard Made my colonial life appear to be so out of tune Entwined with a charming Terran man As I get the first taste of my beloved home world Of off-world living, he's a fan And I relished as all his space-age daydreams unfurled I've never been home, my love Only lived on orbits and in domes, my immigrant lover But your music and poems, my love Make me feel the oceans and loam, my immigrant lover As our kind expands, my love Into the unknown, holding hands, my immigrant lover In a ship with you, my love Let's find a world that's green and blue, my immigrant lover It came straight out of Trappist One We met out in interstellar space Its transmission I did not shun And for the first time ever our species embrace Although we harbored some reluctance All notion of fear and suspicion died as contact was made Speech and language became redundant As through some mental medium Our truest feelings we conveyed It felt forbidden, my love But we were both clearly smitten, my immigrant lover Will this even work, my love As our differences will always lurk, my immigrant lover How will you be perceived, my love Inspire hate or be well received, my immigrant lover The storms we weather, my love We'll brace them all together, my immigrant lover