As a youth leader, a couple decades ago, I was late preparing a club talk one evening, so I made up a story about teddy-bear like extraterrestrials whose planet is rescued from ecological disaster. The tale was later written down as a children's story called the Buffins of Twerpus. In my current adult novel the buffins have re-appeared in the middle of the human Battle of Armageddon, at Granada, in Spain, AD 2103. Using only color and sound they disintegrate the humans' weapons and create an empathy among the combatants that stops the battle in its tracks.
The entire population of our planet is divided into two camps, those who see the aliens as a lethal threat to humanity that must be tracked down and exterminated, and those who see them as the fulfillment of the dream of world peace. Juan Pedro Paradez is Poet Laureate of the latter, a world-wide Disparate Peace Network. Sitting on the Sierra Nevada's treeless north slope, facing Granada he composes aloud, a sonnet of thanks for the buffin intervention. It is instantly disseminated, mind-mind and world-wide, via "brain screen," the implanted internet chips they share.
"Wrapped up in rainbows, rills of sight and sound,
a healing flow, engulfing hate, in streams,
they came to us with pow'r beyond our dreams.
Still, in their work, no dire intent was found.
In one empathic ah-ha! we abound,
life-force evolved, as the Creator deems.
One momentary gift our soul redeems,
Redemption for a planet lost, and found.
Elder siblings in the quest for life
arrived on Earth as bearers of the love
that, once embraced, will raise us to the height.
This is our time to jettison all strife,
receive the heav'nly unifying dove,
Earth elevated, out of dark to light."
If you were among the billions of Earth in AD 2103, which camp would you fall into? If the alien intervention happened today?
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Don L. Johnson, Author/Teacher
680 County Road MM
River Falls, WI 54022
www.MannValleyPress.com
Phone: (651) 470-3719
http://donjohnsonshopeforpeace.blogspot.com/
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