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Aliens

Michael Marchese

By Michael Brandon MarchesePublished 5 years ago 1 min read

Is it truly human nature

This fear of the unknown?

We see aliens among us

And we'd rather be alone

Not look inside their homeless void

To seas of stars they drift across

From planets now destroyed

Systems rendered lifeless

By battle droids we have deployed

And Death-star machinations

Despot warlord tractor beams

Cause anti-gravitations

Of resource, culture, sovereignty

Drained into the mothership

Warp-drives of Lady Liberty's

Distortion of democracy

To us their eyes are oil

Their tongues are suicide

Their offspring are jihadists

That we have crucified

The future of their species

Ethnic cleansed and slaughtered

Galactic-level genocide

By humanoid marauders

Reducing sentient creatures

To ion-cannon fodders

Then activate the forcefields

Preventing the invasion

Of refugees we've added

To the anti-life equation

As worm holes of our hatred grow

Infinitely to all we know

Different in appearance

But of the same design

If we'd but open universal

Borders of the mind

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