Forbidden Planet

(Picture Credit - Forbidden Planet by Tix dot is)

This planet orbits a yellow sun like ours.

It is in the Optimum Zone to support life.

Sure enough it has a wide variety of flora and fauna.

Highly intelligent life has evolved in its seas and oceans.

Its continents, however, are dominated by a species of primates.

Over the past 300 of the planet’s years they have developed

Some fairly high technology.

But they remain carnivores

Who regularly commit genocide.

They cut down swathes of natural forest

To grow chemically protected

Genetically modified nutrition-sources.

And they mine their planet empty

Of its mineral riches.

The planet’s ecosystem is being rapidly destroyed

By them.

Socially and psychologically they remain primitive.

Yet they possess the means to blow their world

To pieces.

With heavy heart I have to advise

We sign this planet

“No Entry: Off Limits”

For the foreseeable future.

“Forbidden” indeed.

A planet we call MW Orion 8478-3

That its natives call

That ever so common name:

“Earth”.

Paul Butters