I dreamt you were an alien

(it was a fever dream)

you looked just as you do

only your skin had a cast of electric blue

blue like your eyes but

preternatural,

otherworldy.

We walked

I understood

(you had said)

that you wanted to be inside me

--no-- 

that you wanted to LIVE inside my body

I wanted that too

but I wanted to know how.

Apprehensive

but excited

I asked:

how would it happen?

Would you dissolve

like sugar

into me?

Your atoms and molecules

fusing with mine

until we are one?

Or would you become a vapor

and slip inside me

through my naval

or nose?

Would I need to eat you?

Swallow you up?

And how would it feel?

Would it feel earthly

rooted,

primal and deep?

Or would it feel ethereal

ghostly,

like a memory

or a past life dream?

How does it happen, Will?

How has it come to be

that you’ve come to live inside of me?

I’m so hungry to know

but I am fed by the mystery.