An alien space craft
on a voyage across the Milky Way
decided to visit the third planet
from a rather small star
in an average size solar system
But far from this beautiful, sapphire sphere
with scattered clouds and pristine
snow capped poles
they decided to look for a secluded place to land
To their horror
they saw buildings, neglected, rusting, crumbling
painted with strange art and language
Away from the cities
the countryside was littered by non organic objects
and even whole mountain tops were covered
with graffiti
Their intergalactic travel brochure showed
a completely different world
The photographs taken only a hundred years ago
The atmosphere showed signs of high radiation
and so a decision was made not to land
Having come from such a beautiful world
where nature is respected and nurtured
they could not understand
how a civilization
could mar such beauty
and so decided that the inhabitants
must indeed be barbaric
And so passed by the Earth to visit
a nearby planet
unknown to the Earth inhabitants
and spend time in paradise before going home.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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