Universal Translator

(Picture Credit -Great Universe by Antifan Real)

It’s the first ever meeting of the Interstellar Federation

In which the “Universal Translator” is employed.

The “Chairman” stands and asks

Each delegate to make introduction by race and planet.

The first being announces:

I am Human, from Planet Earth, in The Solar System.

So the second delegate adds:

We too are “Human” and our planet is called “Earth”.

Our “Earth” orbits round The Sun, which lies

In the centre of our Solar System.

And the third representative says:

I am Human too…

And the fourth…

And the fifth…

And the sixth….

And the seventh…

Paul Butters

Message

I say again:

There may well be a Higher Power

Or Powers

Out there

Somewhere.

Even a Higher Intelligence.

If there is,

I have a Message

For Him, Her, Them, You:

SOS.

Paul Butters

Dawn Vision

                                            (Awake the Dawn by Sword of the Spirit)

Dawn breaks,

Awaking me to our universe:

Ever expanding,

Into infinite space.

Billions of stars,

Planet and moons.

Countless possibilities,

Multiverse or not.

Too vast to comprehend.

Together we are

But a leaf in the forest,

Drop in the ocean,

Grain of sand on the beach.

Lost in orderly chaos.

One sparkle in a firework display.

Logically there should be higher powers

And maybe one supreme being, ruling all.

Call it Gods or God

Whatever you like.

Feel free to choose your own.

Select from the maelstrom of energy and life

That is out there.

Choose from intelligences way beyond our reckoning.

For names are nothing but convenience

For we ants

As we look up at the stars.

Paul Butters