Authored: September 19, 2020

Will we bleed again, when we take on new skin?
Will I still love, when my blood is taken from me?
Will I still dream? Dream of us? Of you? Of your eyes?
Will I remember your face? Or will I be something anew?

You told me to wash away my sins; that the past could be absolved?
Your fingers traced my jawline, I was lost within your solipsism
This madness in my head, a memory shroud of you
You became a wild blossoming flower around my heart
You promised me that I would not remember?

*DISTORTION*

The machines powered up, the heavy hum of tech
You looked down on me and told me everything would be alright
And I was injected with a drug to bade me into the unknown
Something happened to the essence of me
Visions of my life and of love flowed through me and left me
Surrounded by nanonytes that took my flesh
Replaced with the veneer of machinate Metallica
Transferring away from humanity
Into something different.

*REWIRED*

Contours shape my synapses
Memories recontextualized
Nanos restoring paths unused
Codes being rewritten and downloaded from the mainframe
Blocks of memory corrupted, unable to purge
Fields of vision; eyes reopen
Something is missing.

A bird flies in the sky above me
A memory restored
You....
The taste of your lips, the fragrance of your perfume
The feel of human flesh
An archetype.......*CORRUPTED SYSTEM*

Will we bleed again, when we take on new skin?
Will I still love, when my blood is taken from me?
Will I still dream? Dream of us? Of you? Of your eyes?
Will I remember your face? Or will I be something anew?

*PROJECT HAS BEEN TERMINATED*