Monday, September 15, 2003

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That day it came from the sky
Flew down all fiery; so cloudless was the horizon
Yet it flew down from the sky

"It was a satellite from a home planet called Earth. Upon its side it bore their sign, a large, green planet, with oceans and tides. Many flags stuck out from it from many ways. And next to these there was one flag which appeared to be a combination of all the rest..."

The satellite that bore the rain
that was all stained and clod with strain
with rips about its stern, its front, its back
it stood a weathered, inundated beast all smoked with fire
a messanger from above the endless abyss
a crawler of freedom and history's attire it stood
and when we opened it we did not know what we would see
or what to even say

"It was said that inside the satellite there was born an upside-down cross. It faced us, as burnt as the outside of the ship. When we tampered with this cross, and turned it over to its otherside, we found a skeleton all boney, emaciated and grimed. It held in its boney hands across its chest a dusty book with many pages, so many pages that it seemed to have words even above its own. There was lettering upon the front, but we did not translate it until later."

the man inside the satellite
was nailed to an upside-down cross
crucifixed by his arms and by his legs
and his boney hands that still held some moldy skin
he held a book that glowed in the murk
and whose face was colored in the light
the book, some said, the book
the book

"When we took to translating it, we found that it said upon its front "The HOly Bible," and from then on we came to translating its many words. This took quite some time, as the book was far over thousands of pages long. When we were finished, and all set down in a translated copy, we then came to realize many things of the people of this planet called Earth.

"We learned that they had spited the man upon the cross, whose name was Jesus Christ. Jesus had been a carpenter, the scriptures read, and he had healed many; he had given life where it was dying. Yet still most hated him, most spit right upon his feet. Of the few who did not, they were his apostles. They followed in his footsteps, and spoke his good words, and bade the world a better place.

"For these things Jesus was sent upon a cross, the exact upside-down one which we had found within the satellite. They nailed his arms to the cross, and nailed his legs, and let him die there and bleed there. FOr the longest time he sat there and bled, and still then he did not even hate the people he had been sent to help. And still even then he screamed and yelled his wills, and told of salvation in death for those who worshipped his Father.

"It is read in the scriptures that even when he did die, and his good apostles buried him, that even then he did not die. He came back to his dear apostles, and bade them to spread what he had left to them. From here on out the book's pages are faded, some blank, some missing.

"The very end of the book reads in someone's thin, solid script that one day Jesus shall come again. That one day peace shall restore the land. It reads that the people of this planet called Earth had killed and massacred themselves in a war over this religion and many others.

"From there, that is all."

we here on our home
have taken Jesus from the satellite
and placed him underneath our soil
and given him the most exalted prayer
and began our worship of him at this likely time

"We here on Mars have just been born in comparison to these other beings. From what we have read of the war, it is easy to tell that our neighbor, in its existence, was highly advanced..."
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