Glass shards erupt in my chest –
behind my ribs it crawls bites
gnaws – awakens
“No.”
The gate slams shut on their future.
Mechanical arms, lead empty
Morse carries me over the inferno.
Pain, pain reminds me:
Remember Brett and Parker
Lambert, Kane and Dallas…
Remember Vasquez, Hudson
Poor Goreman… Even Burke,
Hicks….
Newt….
Remember the screeching
tearing claws on steel.
Tormented mouths impaled
raped – used.
Ghosts of gone support
my spine, speed
me on my way.
Help me hold her inside –
until I can die.
“This is Ripley,
last survivor of the Nostromo,
signing off.”
~Sarah
Alien. By Ronald Shusett Dan O’Bannon. Dir. Ridley Scott. Perf. Sigourney Weaver. Twentieth Century-Fox. 1979. Film .
