niche kin appreciation 8: write a poem or drabble

Haiku

Stranger from beyond

With dark skin and purple eyes

Who were you, before?

Drabble

We started out as humans. We were a hungry race, though we didn’t know what for. We wanted knowledge, power, we wanted… to escape. To find a better place. We didn’t know we would find it, this “better” place. And we didn’t know we would become trapped there.

We started out as humans, but I don’t think we are anymore. Our bodies were twisted, changed by the fruit that became our only source of food. We adapted, our skin darkened, our eyes brightened to see better, to see more. And then we were given a new power, and everything changed.