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[johnstonmr]

Usually I'm the last person to post song lyrics. But as I age (shut up, you!), I mellow a tiny bit, and sure, these may not mean much to YOU any more than the lyrics to some Saliva song mean to me, but since it's my journal, frell it.

Anyway, this one kinda hit me, I'm not really sure why. It's about wonder, loneliness and pain and has a tiny twist in it.



"Samaritan"

Through the stillness of space
We could sense a disturbance.
To the planet below, we
Were drawn by your call.

Your starship lay shattered
And Battered and dying,
The lifeforce within it was
Fragile and small.

We could not leave you to
Such vile destruction.
We took you aboard
Our own vessel that day.

We guarded your spark
And we nurtured your body.
But the kindness we showed you
You did not repay.

To us you were strange
But to you we were stranger.
You gibbered in horror
At finding us here.

Yet we had done nothing
To merit your loathing.
We could not comprehend
When you howled in despair!

Gently we probed at
Your mind and your memories.
Striving to learn
What we could of your kind.

We were voyagers seeking
Knowledge of others.
You might have been the Contact
That we hoped to find.

To our sorrow we learned
How you cherished your difference.
Locked safely away in
The vault of your mind.

How can you bear it,
This cold, empty, silence,
Recoiling in horror
From all that you find?

We offered comfort;
You struck out in Anger.
The cruelest emotion
You wield like a knife!

Now you have murdered
All of my people!
Is this how you pay us
For saving your life?

If I could but touch you
Somehow in the darkness
I know it is futile
And yet I must try.

For I cannot live
All alone in the Silence,
And when I am gone, Human,
You too will die.