The beacon was turned on and the fleet
was launched.
It was a time of great emergency.
War?
A homeworld destroyed?
same old,same old.
Along the beacon resonances changed,
voltages,gravity and lots of strangeness.
proteins re-decided and rejected and even turned down sticky.
The crazy now indecisive DNA
caused
things in the water and on the ground and the air to be
changed.
the beacon was like music that way.
Like a bell that had struck a directional note.
The launched people,
found their Image everywhere along the beacon.
It need only to be captured and trained.
Another colony among thousands
as the emergency got worse.
Then came a flood,lots of missing scientists.
Life was like a furnace,and people cried alot.
For
They have no choice.
Look up and its an abyss
Its an excuse to do anything.
They decide what anything is.
Its pure mechanics.
Whats best is a handful of sabateur grade
pebbles just above it all.
Just in case.
A contest entry
- Growing strong and strange by rainboots.
400 points, ended September 9, 2009, 10 entries
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Comments
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Format was a bore but the poem's words were brilliant. Thanks for entering.

