Tuesday 13 March 2012

THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL


“We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we’ve created ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?” - Richard Bach

Another wonderful image from Magpie Tales for this week’s creative challenge. Once again, being the tinkerer and tamperer that I am, I could not resist transmogrifying it a little, with apologies to Aleksander Nedic who created the prototype: “Uzengia”.

The Extraterrestrial

I come to you in peace,
My star so far away,
A pinpoint of light
In your night sky.
I come to your distant world
And find myself in paradise.

I’ve travelled long and far,
Away from the dry deserts
Of my homeland –
An arid planet, red and barren
Where water’s most precious
And wars are fought over a well.

Your blue-green world
Hanging in space
Like a gemstone, beckoned,
And I came, succumbing
To its gentle insistence
Like a lover’s gaze.

I come to you in peace,
And seek only repose,
The luxury of drinking my fill,
Eating the lush vegetation
With my wide open eyes,
My sight not sated by the green.

Your oceans brimming with life
Remind me of our distant past –
As our history writes –
When we too inhabited such a world:
Blue-green, drenched, bedewed,
Immersed in crystal waters.

Your forests, drinking the rain
That falls so regularly,
Are priceless beyond compare.
The flowers costlier than jewels bright –
What use to us are our diamonds,
Common as pebbles on my world?

And yet I see vast deserts, here,
I see the rainforests cut, extinction,
Your oceans polluted, animals dying.
The signs are here that you too
Have set a course that will make
Your earth a world like mine.

I come to you in peace,
And seek only a brief respite.
I bring a message from Hell
To your blue-green Eden:
Time runs short, destruction’s close
Unless you become wise, soon…

3 comments:

  1. I love the message here...and the repetition of "I come to you in peace" is very effective...

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  2. Love the Richard Bach quote and everything that followed!!

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  3. Ah much wisdom here and as many of us cannot see beyond our immediate needs and think not of tomorrow - I feel we need this alien visit - but then probably would not listen, really listen...

    Anna :o]

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