A/N: This poem was written and performed by me for the 2013 Dalek Poetry Slam at CONvergence. If anyone is interested, I've posted a link to the YouTube video on my profile.
How do you make a dalek?
Subtract love, add hate
Only one thing left
Exterminate
Crashed on this planet
Choking on the cloud
But for a genius like me
A safe haven is found
Day three sixty three
And I'm still hanging on
I'll just turn up the music
To drown out the sounds
I can hear them at the door
They always come at night
An unfriendly place
For my first outer space flight
But I will survive this
My outlook is positive
I pass the time with soufflés
Too beautiful to live
Now here I am
On day three sixty three
The day chin boy came
He was here to rescue me
I found the dalek systems
Incredibly easy to hack
When asked how I did it
I just said I had a knack
I led them to safety
With a flirty charm
His friend slowly converting
No bracelet on her arm
How do you make a dalek?
Subtract love, add anger
They insist that was normal
She was not yet in danger
But chin boy didn't worry
For his friend with the legs
Instead he just questioned
The milk and the eggs
How can he be so worried
About my soufflés?
Aren't there more pressing things
To worry about this day?
The daleks would destroy
This world out of fear
I sent him a map
To get me out of here
Final length of the journey
I got him this far
Come rescue me, chin boy
And show me the stars!
But he didn't come in
He just asked if it felt real
What does that mean?
I know what I feel
He asked again
A question I was starting to hate
Where did I get the milk?
The eggs…eggs-terminate?
Doctor, oh, Doctor!
I cried out in pain
Why do they hate you?
Why are you their bane?
They've grown so much stronger
In fear of this man
But I'll save him yet
I have a plan
I am Oswin Oswald
I am a human being
So run you clever boy
And remember me
How do you make a dalek?
Subtract love, add hate
Only one thing left
Exterminate!
My mum always said
A soufflé is not a soufflé
It's the recipe that matters
At the end of the day
My asylum destroyed
My consciousness spread
I've saved him again
I'm one more time dead
But he'll see me again
I'm always there
I was born to save the Doctor
I see what you did there
But I can't save him forever
See what he's turned into
The question will be asked
Doctor Who?