Requiem for my Cylon Lover

by Odon

Poetry's not my forte, but I imagine tragic love has inspired more than one effort. The Chief on his relationship with Sharon Valerii.

Title: Requiem for my Cylon Lover

Author: Odon

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica 2003

Pairing: Boomer/Chief Tyrol

Rating: G. Contains angst.

Summary: Poetry's not my forte, but I imagine tragic love has inspired more than one effort. The Chief on his relationship with Sharon Valerii.

Disclaimer: Ron Moore said fanfic's OK, as long as it's not done for profit. So this isn't.

Feedback is certainly welcome. Archiving too, but please try and contact me first. I'd like to thank Grace and Meagan for their much valued beta work.

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REQUIEM FOR MY CYLON LOVER

Love came unscheduled

on the shuttle from Troy.

And in the causeways and crannies

of tool rooms and water tanks

we were so very human.

Death came with terrible emergence.

We clung together desperate

to avoid the reaping.

But piece by piece,

through lies upon lies,

your humanity was stolen from us.

Love and laughter and easy camaraderie

digitised down to access codes,

and ice crystals drifting in space.

Now I toil on Vipers.

Lose myself in roll thrusters, intake manifolds,

AP rounds and targeting analogs

while my Cylon lover waits in the darkness.

All that is left to me

is the machine.