Mass Effect: Meet Me at the Bar

A free verse Mass Effect Poem

I was just a turian cop, a rebel

Among the other Citadel Security officers

She was the first human Spectre appointed by the Council

Tasked with hunting two dangerous enemies,

A fellow turian & an asari

I was not in love

Back then it was respect

& she was with another man

The Staff Lieutenant was human. It made sense

I left the team after Saren’s defeat

To escape the law’s red tape

And lost myself on Omega

I learned Shepard had died when

The Normandy was ambushed & destroyed

I was devastated, but

I am still not in love

She is a human

I am turian.

I liberated my anger on Omega’s

Unjust soul. Peering through my scope

I see the insignia. Shepard? Here?

My heart jumped joyfully seeing her

Alive. It was true

I loved her

Yes. Her hair looked good &

Her hips were very supportive

I followed her to the galaxy’s end

Again. Almost lost her again

The Reapers invaded. Shepard led the charge

Against them. I order her

To return alive. The galaxy

Would be empty without her.

“If we don’t survive

Meet me at the bar in

Heaven. ” I remember & mourn

As I place her name on the memorial