Shadows creep and crawl
Body falters, bathed in fear –
Mind’s flame flickers not.
y host sells effort for income, possess unremarkable identity, is effectively invisible to all but 20 souls of this rapidly growing 6.5 billion.
Its mind reveals few signs of paranoia that directs the affairs of so many of this furtive fearful flock.
Its body mediocre at 57% of 100-year life span, brain function perhaps slightly above median – 44% exceed it on processing speed though it downs 93 percentile dual-lobe integrated. My ‘self’ cohabits the non-verbal hemisphere while the genial, amicable host blissfully directs his language and identity.
I might dwell another time on mental hosting refinements. But for now, these are an unusual bi-cameral species whose leap to conscious thought was still-born, or at least crippled at inception. They labor under a staggering dysfunction, achieving an iota of their capacity. Still, impressive. Slightly more so than the persistence of ants.
Of several hundred distinct languages and thousands of dialects, several predominate and I use the most common of science, communication and commerce.
Earth endures turbulent times (when has it not?) on the cusp of a technology watershed. And if they are not careful, a polar watershed.
A large, conservative rearguard resists change, labeling the developing frontier ‘infidel’ or ‘devil worship’ while being endlessly tempted and eroded by its lure, and plundered by its powerful ‘agents’.
Recorded history confirms turbulence normal for this DNA series. Since life began here, as predictable as the physics they believe in, forces of man – like those of nature – negotiate, dominate, disintegrate. Peoples grow and perish, nations bloom and die – and the very continents supporting them drift, separate and wash into the immense salty green oceans.
Sadly, such firmware engenders universal paranoia; trust found fragile from family to federation. Only a vigorous, prolific intellect saves most from a life of abject horror – and the globe from cataclysm. Inevitably schizophrenia, curiously labeled disease, is ‘controlled’ by medication. Fortunately their genius and imagination are not!
I am truly privileged to visit Earth at this time. My stay will be time enough to witness the final outcome of civilization – which I believe can be predicted now. Their time is nigh, and, headlong on their course, will soon collide with Omega’s potency.
Evolution as always will have its way, harnessed by their ‘free will’ of course; the sequel fervently anticipated!
