Meeting Poem by Jan Sand

We have traveled long,
We have journeyed far
To meet you on this highway
Beneath an alien star.
Our home was plundered cruelly,
Our planet rendered totally.
The races there destroyed the air.
Tales told anecdotally
Recall the splendor of our Earth
Which we barely could repair.
Eons upon eons did we labor to arise
From dull sluggish creatures
Through drills of evolutions
To gain intellect, further features
That revealed the solutions
To the mysteries of space.
Greetings, then from planet Earth,
To life as rational as ours.
I extend my tentacle to yours
To welcome a stranger from the stars.