I took an alien to prom

I’d been at school a minute or two ,

When mom called me, out of the blue ,

And said we had guests, out of town ,

Coming for the week to hang around.

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Ok, I said, but I’ve prom this weekend,

So, my stiff schedule couldn’t bend.

Then she explained they have a girl,

Who I could give taking out a whirl.

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Mom, you know I’m not that boy,

Tell me what’s behind this ploy?

Well, mom said, she’s from outer space,

I fear she won’t fit in with the human race.

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My jaw dropped until I recovered,

While my body uncoolly shuddered.

I couldn’t take an alien to prom!

They’d make fun of me, especially Tom.

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But I did it anyway and got her flowers.

I just wish someone warned of her powers,

Because when I saw her, my body went numb,

And a cage of butterflies released in my tum.

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A hand reached into my chest,

Through my sternum, then to rest,

Minutes in the walls of my heart,

Until it found my soul and with a start,

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Began pulling it back through,

The walls and sternum, as it grew,

While hers did too, until they touched,

And together, our souls, the other clutched.

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Without our skin making contact,

We held each other, ransacked,

Of cool and control and securities—

See-through and exposing all impurities.

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I remembered my friends said fat chance,

That I’d actually hold her for a dance.

Yet here we were sharing so much more,

The meeting of two souls on a single shore.

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Our eyes stayed caught in the trance,

But I would never call it a romance.

No, that would diminish what it was—

When we defied fear and its fatal laws

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This is the best way that I can describe it,

And when asked if I showed her around a bit

I couldn’t explain this deep soul composition

So, I said I exposed her to the human condition