The first time that you surfaced, you were scattered on the coast

A "gelatinous monstrosity" was the phrase they used the most

I didn’t see you in the flesh, so I ate up every bit

Of information I could get on you before you tore and split apart

 

And in your introduction to this world of air and bone

It sanded you and squeezed you 'til its shape became your own

It gifted you a face to suit the pressure as you rose

But unless you grow a pair of lungs, then what good is a nose?

 

And who knows what’s above and who knows what below

You would look like

If we could see you

 

But I can’t help but stare in this rarefied air

How grotesque it must be

To be you