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The Foreigners
October 6, 2018
For many years we lived,
Distant and alone,
Isolated from the wider world...
Then one fateful day,
When all was by the norm,
Foreigners walked into our home...
They soar through the sky,
In great birds of steel,
Without a single flap of a wing...
While down on the ground,
Their carriages roll,
Seemingly pulled by thin air...
Along our village paths,
The foreigners roam,
Directions, they never do ask...
They carry shiny rocks,
Into which they talk,
Incessantly through night and day...
These foreigners arrive,
Take us by surprise,
Then expect us to just let them stay...
That must not happen,
We shan't let them dampen,
Our time-honored values and ways...
© Caelyn C., Webster, NY
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This article has 4 comments.
Finnpuggs said...
on Nov. 9 2018 at 5:14 pm
Yeah Zahran!!!!
Rhiannon_4 DIAMOND said...
on Oct. 10 2018 at 10:23 am
This poem is beautifully well-written. You perfectly translated the words I'm always trying to say. Great job!
This poem represents how "less advanced" indigenous civilizations may have viewed the Western explorers and colonists who took over most of their lands.