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Requiem for my Cylon Lover

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

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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.

Send feedback to odon05@hotmail.com. Archiving is welcome, 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 lie upon lie,
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.
Lost 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.