deep

if you learned i was a robot

would you hold me while i cry
or just toss me an old oil can
and say, “wipe the tears from your eyes?”

if i was a shooting star

exploding in the sky

would you consider me a missile

and cry out for me to die?

if i were a just stranger

would you give me half a chance

would you flick me off like cigarette ash

at the slightest sideways glance?

if i were a tornado

would you let me hold you for a while

then go and climb down to the shelter

and let the whole thing pass you by?

if i were in a car wreck

would you want to look and see

and cast your gently gazing eyes

one last time at me?

to touch my face so softly

reaching into this grotesque

a scene were love lies suspended

in viscous strings of thick blood mess

and if i said i truly loved you

would the past all melt away

as i lay there dying slowly

would you finally look and see

the man at the core of all of this

now a broken spirit machine

all the gears and springs

of a heart torn up by dreams

they are so soft and fragile

so this puts it to the test

will you realize how deep my love went

when you finally lay me

to rest?