Far From Home

we call them aliens and give them all sorts of imagined power in this universe ignoring that  traveling at the speed of light  it would take one hundred twenty thousand years to cross our milky way

alien we say
gone from his home much too long
thousand years perhaps

7-14-20
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Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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