Have you ever wondered what aliens might think about us? I realise that this is a difficult question because first you have to believe they are out there, and secondly you need to believe that there is some similarity in thinking and communication. However, just for the moment, let’s say/assume they are watching, and that their thinking processes are not so different from humans.
The current world climate is a little frightening (geographically, politically, and climatically) and the behaviour of some of its inhabitants (this being the humans) is questionable. After all, it is people who are responsible for that current climate in every sense of the word and not just rising temperatures. Are we on our way to becoming a dystopian novel? Or do you feel like I do, that perhaps we are already partly there?
I have always thought of Earth as our landlord. Having spent a few years in real estate I know what that entails. There are rules to be adhered to if the property is to survive and yet there are horror stories. One of my favourite was the doctor couple who rented a fully furnished house for a considerable sum of money, had brilliant references yet proceeded to paint over the handmade Tasmanian Blackwood timber bedroom furniture in green.
Another and very common story was the belief by owners that their property was worth so many $$$$$ when they had not bothered to keep the property up to date or at the very least, well-maintained.
Subsequently, with the aid of some awesome alliteration and most likely some over-the-top soppy sentiments, a partnership occurred in my mind creating a personal commentary of disintegration. Was that my intention? I don’t know. Poets, if I dare call myself one, often play with words when serious thoughts come to mind and what is sometimes spontaneously spewed into existence, surprises them and me, as much as others.
This is a very big universe. Consequently, it is arrogant to assume we are the only ones out there. Hence, wondering what they might think of us, seems a logical thought/question to have, doesn’t it?
If an epidemic is not contained, it spreads. At times, the behaviours observed could be considered a much like a contagious disease. Imagine for a small second we have the ability to shift from place to place at this very moment in time, what would you see?
Sincerely hoping that my bleak outlook is purely literary and fictional. Is it though?
No one gave notice
(From Emotions in Evolution and The Emotions Anthology Box Set)
Breathing has become impossible.
The automatic flow now my dead
dearest friend.
Hidden and obstructed
fuelling fires flame
growing, grieving, grasping
holding hard hopelessly
to life lost, unwanted.
Thinking has become anguished.
The unstoppable flow now my live
worst enemy.
Obvious, in full view
the fleeting feelings freeze
groaning grievously grim
heaving hurling horror
for life gone, unrealised.
Where was the warning bell?
Did the landlord forget to give notice?
Would love to hear from you and what you are thinking,
Barb
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Good stuff !!
Love your poetry. As for aliens, I think they’d find us rather primative