lucifernomi
10-12-2006, 01:57 PM
Odd For an Earthling (I)
The very moment we met I became a little weirder. Everyone could tell it but me. After all, I had always believed that there was something else out there, at night, sitting on the roof with my thoughts and staring into outer space. I was always a little odd for an Earthling, but I guess no one really noticed it until I started telling them about her. Joi. She was a genuine child of the stars, an explorer from a distance world unknown by man, and visible from Earth only in the midnight sky. To my family she was just the new girl down the street. They told me not to believe in aliens.
Joi was my secret, and at night, when my brothers and sister had gone to bed, she would impart her alien wisdom, and share with me colorful stories from her trek across the cosmos. I tried to spread her message, but people on Earth don't take me seriously - when I told them how she'd made me a feminist, they just looked at me crooked. Joi understood me, and loved me, and at my insistence, carried me off to her planet where I could breathe it all in, where we stayed for quite a while. In retuning to Earth, I've come also to realize that I am an Earthling no longer. I speak of alien religions, talk alien politcs, clothe myself in alien robes, and sit "alien-style" on the couch. I have come home a citizen of a wider universe. People make light of me, but I know they have not seen the things I have seen.
After all, Earth is mostly the same.
The very moment we met I became a little weirder. Everyone could tell it but me. After all, I had always believed that there was something else out there, at night, sitting on the roof with my thoughts and staring into outer space. I was always a little odd for an Earthling, but I guess no one really noticed it until I started telling them about her. Joi. She was a genuine child of the stars, an explorer from a distance world unknown by man, and visible from Earth only in the midnight sky. To my family she was just the new girl down the street. They told me not to believe in aliens.
Joi was my secret, and at night, when my brothers and sister had gone to bed, she would impart her alien wisdom, and share with me colorful stories from her trek across the cosmos. I tried to spread her message, but people on Earth don't take me seriously - when I told them how she'd made me a feminist, they just looked at me crooked. Joi understood me, and loved me, and at my insistence, carried me off to her planet where I could breathe it all in, where we stayed for quite a while. In retuning to Earth, I've come also to realize that I am an Earthling no longer. I speak of alien religions, talk alien politcs, clothe myself in alien robes, and sit "alien-style" on the couch. I have come home a citizen of a wider universe. People make light of me, but I know they have not seen the things I have seen.
After all, Earth is mostly the same.