Analysis of Foreign Friends



We have finally arrived
to this place called Earth,
where we come in precious peace
for our colony's rebirth.

It was serendipitous to find
your timeless distant call.
An answer to salvation
from this blistering burning ball

that destroyed our whole world
in a random act of fury,
and sentenced us to exile
with no Courtroom, Judge, or Jury.

Now let's observe in hiding
these humans with belief,
that they're friendly like their message,
and could help us rid this grief.

But the data reinforced
what my eyes in sadness saw:
"They're a self-proclaimed king species,
who ravaged their kingdoms raw."

You make holes and clear forests
with your fracking and your hacking
that expel malicious methane,
and promote oxygen lacking

in the atmosphere around you
where all life plead and pray
for you to lend your ear,
yet you listen light-years away.

You bite the land that feeds you,
yet you ask it for more food?
Then you'll beg for pardon dearly,
yet your actions remain crude.

And your system is so funny!
In which many work for few.
Paying taxes before necessities.
Your priorities' not on cue!

I can't fathom your accounting.
Are people costs, not assets???
That honor's with machinery,
who could steal your future's facets.

There can't be others like you.
So confused among the stars.
You live to make your planet
look like its neighbor, Mars.

We traveled with excitement
that our species would unite.
But your greed is so sinister,
you'll exploit us with delight.

Quick! We must leave swiftly!
Before they notice we exist.
Let them send their warm welcomes
into the dark and cold abyss.


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC DEXE XXFX XDXD GHXH GICI CGFG DXCX GJXJ XKXK CXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (77%)
Metre 1110001 11111 1110101 11010001 11010011 110101 1101010 11100101 1011011 00101110 010111 1111110 1101010 110101 11101110 0111111 101001 1110101 10101110 1101101 1110110 1110110 1010101 00110010 0010011 111101 111111 11101101 1101111 1111111 11111010 1110011 01101110 0110111 1010010100 10100111 11101010 110111 11010100 11111010 1111011 1010101 1111110 111101 1101010 1101011 11111100 111101 111110 01110101 1111110 01010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,597
Words 319
Sentences 24
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 52
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

I believe we live in an amazing planet which we need to respect. We have not done that. We spend so much money trying to listen into outer space. So much money looking for other life. Yet there are issues which need solving here at home that we can invest in. Perhaps there are aliens. Perhaps they know we exist. Maybe they studied us and decided to stay away.

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Written on January 25, 2024

Submitted by lugesan_r on February 01, 2024

Modified by lugesan_r on February 02, 2024

1:38 min read
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Lugesan Reddy

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