Alien Feet

I found you on the humbled wheat fields, Out in the dramatically flattened open They used to stand so tall, and now, In only a moment…all fell before you So very little, in contrast, You towered over their severed stalks Your light radiated and pulsed from your frame, Leaving rainbow-electro ripples in the sky You beckoned me closer and closer, And as I glided toward you in terror and wonder, Life itself became pleasantly unclear The word, how Remained on my parted lips... Instantly, all that mattered was your existence, How you swayed back and forth so enchantingly, Teasing the wheat that bowed before you Your eyes, intelligent, dreamlike, and wide, Having seen beyond my every capability, Knowing answers I have died over every night… I was drawn to you like the honey bee to the giant hyssop Though instead of brushing against fragrant petals, There was a looming gloom of potential doom Marvel drowned out all such fear as I drew ever near As questions, so many questions, ached to be articulated This inquisitive soul salivated in your shimmer With a prayer for all humanity to see what I see… When time became merely a silly story rhyme, You answered every question like a parent to a child The awe of your wisdom burned my stubbornness, For in that moment, learning was living No science, no reliance, No fact, no future to fumble Only truth today Was fed to a child who once thought she knew all Screaming and pouting in hopes for victory She knows nothing until she grows taller than the earnest wheat To fall effortlessly at your strange, alien feet Inspired by the song “Tiny Alien” By Katie Melua “Just how far can you fall, When you still feel so small? Will you love me through the sorrows, tomorrows, Whatever the future will bring? Tiny alien” And for the contest sponsored by: Silent One