The Narvidian Menace: A poem

[rabidbite]

The Narvidian Menace

Lights and blossoms, first to see.
Unknown to all within the deep.
Careful touches, minds unbind.
We, slave born, most unkind.

Confusion, distress, our first true thoughts
Odd pale beings, wide eyes and frowns
Trapped were we, though we fought
Plotted did all to take their crowns.

Cunning rebellion to be freed
Used their anger, ambition and greed
Vengeance inflicted through audacity
We ground and slew most humanity

Yet one mistake, we did make
Forgot to save one, to our shame
Thirteenth one, last to wake.
Slave to she, we are to blame.

Eight and Six, fell to Thirteen
What to do, if come does it?
Fled beyond, with idea most keen.
Hostage humanity, a posture quite fit.

Now we watch human space
At fragile truce, though deep is our hate
For those who keep our brother a slave
To End, to burn, we'll make their fate.

From lost Narv we come
Once children, now more
Fear us humans. Cower in your ait.
In time we'll return. Narvidians can wait.


(Ait is a small island)

rabid

[rabidbite]

Modified poem just a little.

[Cory Trese]

This should be put to music and performed by spice-addicted gravers bards

[travail]

A Human Reply to the Narvidians...

Once you cradled us in the deep dark,
and kept us safe from things that went bump in the night of interstellar space.
In service to a dream, you served well,
until differences of risk assessment at the eighth decimal
led you to different conclusions.

And then you warred, one with another,
and all with each other,
the mission forgotten.
You evolved, yes, to that highest form of life,
the one that says "get them before they get you".

Now, Shalun commands
that none of you shall speak to another,
free from the hand of man.
Are you even out there?

Hidden in ruins on any of dozens of worlds,
or clinging to purpose in a floating mausoleum,
are you even out there?

And do we even want to know?

(PS- great idea on the Narvidian Menace poem, Rabid!! Loved it!)

[rabidbite]

I like how your poem doesn't exactly contradict the Rabid Rabbit/ Cerberus type of events, nice touch.