My Immigrant Lover

She came straight out of Africa
Met her on the dunes of the Levant
To my neanderthal anima
Her shapely form and sophistication did enchant
Entwined with a sultry homo sapien
As we chill through the Pleistocene
But I won't be there to see it end
So will you still love me into the Holocene

And my fears erode, my love
'Cause I'm now in your genetic code, my immigrant lover
Might have been your kind, my love
Who brought about my decline, my immigrant lover
I may be extinct, my love
But I live on through our link, my immigrant lover
I don't fear the void, my love
'Cause our fates are now conjoined, my immigrant lover

He came straight out of planet Earth
Met him in a bar of a Jovian moon
The songs and stories that I've heard
Made my colonial life appear to be so out of tune
Entwined with a charming Terran man
As I get the first taste of my beloved home world
Of off-world living, he's a fan
And I relished as all his space-age daydreams unfurled

I've never been home, my love
Only lived on orbits and in domes, my immigrant lover
But your music and poems, my love
Make me feel the oceans and loam, my immigrant lover
As our kind expands, my love
Into the unknown, holding hands, my immigrant lover
In a ship with you, my love
Let's find a world that's green and blue, my immigrant lover

It came straight out of Trappist One
We met out in interstellar space
Its transmission I did not shun
And for the first time ever our species embrace
Although we harbored some reluctance
All notion of fear and suspicion died as contact was made
Speech and language became redundant
As through some mental medium
Our truest feelings we conveyed

It felt forbidden, my love
But we were both clearly smitten, my immigrant lover
Will this even work, my love
As our differences will always lurk, my immigrant lover
How will you be perceived, my love
Inspire hate or be well received, my immigrant lover
The storms we weather, my love
We'll brace them all together, my immigrant lover