Your Metallic Skin

I see you.

All shiny and metallic.

Glistening in the sunlight seeping through the window.

Cool, relaxing in your own state,

uninfluenced by outside elements

I feel you.

Warming to the touch of the red glowing burner.

The unwelcome heat gurgling in your veins.

Your pain intensifying,

your suffering incrementally worse with each passing moment.

I hear you.

Your blood boiling in anger

Your voice screaming �help me, help me.�

I come running. I shut down your antagonist.

I give you your reprieve, and wait, while slowly you heal.

I see me.

In the reflection of your shiny metallic skin.

I see my invisible tears.

I hear my silent screams and I wonder,

Who will run to my rescue?

Who will shut down my antagonist?

Who will give me my reprieve?

Then I smile at my reflection, and I realize,

as I was your hero,

my reflection, in your metallic skin, will be my own.

• Image Acknowledgement: Photo by Author
• AI Free Acknowledgement: This is my own work and has not been generated in whole or in part by AI