What Will You Do

("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustics digitally collaged by Stephen Langer) What Will You Do When the aliens come What will you do? Will you go dragged kicking and screaming Only to remember nothing, Or will you go willingly With the curiosity of a child? What’s there after all In the Great Mother ship, A portal, a station, theatre of the mind In multidimensional surround sound Revealing a multiverse of limitless potential Or a black hole of limited impossibility? I don’t know, but it bears considering. In my experience such things happen without choice, Like a moth to a flame Or sonambulator in the dark, But why not be prepared With your choice already made? “Beam me up Scotty” It’s gotten too crazy down here, And what I took for an intelligent lifeform Has turned out to be a mirage. Ah, much better in multidimensional surround, Thanks Ma. (7/9/24)