Alien Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Picked up from a band that marched
Skeleton after skeleton

From a fairly distant star on earth
Thrown

And now on earth on a rocky coast-ledge
Where wave with lightning combated
Rain with frost, chill with wind
In that general ire
How wild,
How inclement your reception here!

Yet on the Earth away
From eyes of human you voyaged.

With the strength of an Alien
The half-courage of the solitary
One;
Of survival, the burning desire!

Now
That days passed
That weeks passed
And months
And even years
Alien to Earth
You are not more an Alien
For by the laws of the immense heavens
You have become Earth’s citizen!