Welcome cousins
The Q sense
Dear listener, please sit back, breath deep and accept
what I am about to tell you is done with respect.
Some of you already know,
Our awareness of the alien invasion has been slow.
Our relatives, to Earth, have often been called.
They come by an invisible force, as if they are hauled.
Their message passes automatically through quorum sensing.
Chemicals find their way at fast speeds, without any guessing.
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Life was shocked into existence when the conditions were right.
It formed in ooze and slime, in the dark and the light.
Our simplest origins began as animals, then they formed plants.
Our ancestors joined forces to utilize the gifts that Earth grants.
Their message is spread throughout the Earth, far and wide,
And now, dear new aliens, we welcome you. Don’t be shy, don’t hide.
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Let’s begin our great adventure, with a game of cat and mouse.
Can you see how we transform behaviours within a house?
It’s simple, we smell good enough to eat as we hide in cat scat.
We manipulate the mouse brain making it think it is friends with said cat.
That adventurous feeling, not being afraid of risk moves into man.
As they clean the cat poo, we pass our power into them, that's the plan.
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We often visit the underground,
where messages are passed without any sound.
Alien and resident bacteria are all deaf, blind, and dumb,
but we can still communicate cross large spaces without a hum.
Our interactions are of a chemical nature.
We set up a strictly enforced legislature.
Any one bacterium can pass a single gene altering interaction,
that induces growth and strengthens resistance. It is quite an abstraction.
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Come along visiting cousins, let us politely regulate behaviour.
Cell-to-cell communication respects each individual can be a saviour.
We invite you, our guests, to express yourself and have a good time,
Show us what you want, changing enzymes is no crime.
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We all began with the same source from above,
Let us show mankind the connection called love.
Our power has just recently been seen.
In a twinkle of an eye, let us aliens make the unthinkable gleam.
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We invite you into the gut of our host,
We can control what happens. We carry the message of a ghost.
Some gut bacteria make individuals get slim or plump.
They can compel individuals to thump, grump, hump, or jump.
Aliens are needed for plants to grow strong.
The alien is the unspoken hero of many a song.
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We know not to destroy or abuse the earthly kind host.
But we do not tolerate those who take more than most.
We work to find balance, within ourselves and others.
We hold a complex communication recognized by nursing mothers.
Our essence remains invisible to most human eyes.
But most sense our potential power within has a chance to be realized.
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We welcome you, our new alien friends. We are all part of a buckyball hive.
We come from stardust and have been shocked alive.
We’ve always been the silent leader who seeks to avoid disastrous strife.
We convert sensory inputs, alter genes and behaviour, and are in charge of life.
We welcome you, not as some dangerous pathogen.
From our gut, we invite you to influence metabolism and androgen,
Controlling these hormones found in either gender is our intention.
They’ve been disrupted because of careless human intervention.
and are causing humanity problems and global destruction.
It's time for us to share the unified fields seduction.
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Come join us cousins. We are autonomous and yet can work together.
We can flock and create change, like birds of a feather.
We can synchronously alter the earth with intensity.
In response to changes in environment and population density
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Come, let us integrate our quorum sensing with the light.
We can alter and create. We’ve got the resilience that is out of sight.
Let us bring joy and adventure that spreads through the world,
to help mankind see how connection and love can be unfurled.
It's so wonderful that you are here,
Let's get into some beer!
About the Creator
Katherine D. Graham
My stories are intended to teach facts, supported by science as we know it. Science often reflects myths. Both can help survival in an ever-changing world.
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Comments (2)
Deep examination of microcosmic checks and balances, always looking for poetic harmony. Manages to be educational and edifying to great pulses and rhythms. Cute rhyme though, I could almost see illustrations to this like in your paramecium notebook.
Gosh, this was so deep, though provoking and beautiful! Well done!