Ultraviolet Chimera

Amphibious & secretive, you slink away unseen, while men of science seek to solve your mystery
Genetics strangely mixed, your body studied like a text, no place for you to hide except in history
What will you see
When the scientists who probe you find you’ve vanished in thin air
Upon webbed feet
Will the prints you leave behind reveal the trail they’ll have to follow or the danger that’s right here

Fur-covered & deliberative, you spark electric signals in the quiet air that leads you to your prey
The scientists experiment with rays of different wavelengths, shining lamps that make you glow or go away
Nobody move
She’s hiding in the spectrum of a light that can’t exist
Are they in love
Or is their interest only purely scientific as they spray the lab with multicolored mist

Ultraviolet chimera
Fluorescing green & blue in the light that follows you
Ultraviolet chimera
What should you do ?

Elusive, shy & serious, you dream again of darkness & await the gentle breaking of each shell
You listen for the snap of twigs, the sound of muddy boots, nudging each precious egg to safety with your bill
Skeptics converge
To doubt the authenticity of films & photographs
Call off the search
The orders from above originate in higher echelons unmoved by spectrographs
Or spiking polygraphs

Ultraviolet chimera,
Revealed blue & green in the moment that you’re seen
Ultraviolet chimera
Where have you been?

But physicists, biologists
Disgraced cryptozoologists
Know Roy G Biv is dead & far beyond the infrared
Encoded in your DNA a map straight through the Milky Way
Points to your origin: you end where you begin

From ultraviolet light to ultraviolence, men of science face the sudden flashing of the smoke alarm
The lab falls into chaos, hard drives hacked & files deleted, It’s not we who wish to do her any harm
The dawn is filled
With song you’ve never heard before, perhaps you’ll join in, too
The truth withheld
While pulsing strangers struggle from their husks to hover high above as if to welcome you
It’s time to start anew

Ultraviolet chimera,
Revealed green & blue when the U.V. lamp’s on you
Ultraviolet chimera
Can it be true?

Ultraviolet chimera,
Keep still & listen in, you’re not the only alien
Ultraviolet chimera,
We’re listening, too

Ultraviolet chimera
Merging with cicada song, days that last a lifetime long
Ultraviolet chimera,
We love you