As above, So below

The girl on Tik Tok shows us clouds, and the inner plumbing of a vessel that appears with applied filters.

And you and I muse that the clouds DO look weird sometimes, but then haven't humans been staring up at animals and demons and

freaky tea kettles since humanity began?

And I remember the fire

at my stepdaughter's house,

Racking my brain,

Trying to remember when it was taken

(Was that before or after

her half brother died?)

Years later, I zoomed out the image of those roaring flames in the center of our semicircle, just because, and there was a screaming skull in the fire.

Was it premonition,

A cry for retribution?

Now and then,

I check back on it

To see if it's still there.

It always is.

"Alien" is defined as "a stranger, foreigner,or "nonhuman" by Wiktionary.

Wikipedia traces back to the proto-Etruscan tribe defining an "Alien" as a slave, which the Romans decided to convert into the current Wiktionary definition.

Merriam-Webster says, : originating, existing, or occurring outside the earth or its atmosphere.

Wikipedia shared with me that there is a fetishism coined "Exophilia" that concerns ones fascination of the sexualization of aliens. (Fun Fact)

I found the definition of "Alien Species" from eea.europa.eu to be particularly interesting;

"An animal, plant, or microorganism that has been introduced as a result of human activity, either accidentally or deliberately, to an area it could not have reached on its own."

They say the answers are all in the language. But language was (presumably) created by humans. So isn't it just our same human thoughts and concepts that are recycling over and over again?

I wish I could say I've seen something alien, as in an extraterrestrial,and perhaps I have, but I wasn't looking for it, so I didn't notice. Because really, what has anyone ever described? A humanoid, a freaky insect, communication through music, colors, water. All of these are familiar human concepts; just tweaked and rearranged. I am not doubtful of the claims UFO sightings, or mysteriously acquired advanced knowledge (i.e., "ARV's"), or even "alien" abductions. I have no argument that these are not actualities, I just (reluctantly) feel as though it's probably just us. Just us humans, not coming from anywhere expect maybe through a time warp somehow, or with new technology not privy to us minions.

I was trying to break down why it is we are so avidly, voraciously curious about beings contacting us from a place we have never been, and I think, once you break through all the surface analysis, is that we are trying to find God. Not the religious God of the human creation, but the Alpha, the beginning of all. I feel that we think if we find aliens, they will have the answers. But truthfully, if we are able to contact and communicate with an extraterrestrial, it probably doesn't know any more than us how or why the fuck any of this or beyond got here.

Don't get me wrong, I am a believer of all I don't know at my core, I just feel as though to be firm and unshakeable in your belief, you must play "devil's advocate", and once you can't break down your arguments anymore, then there you go, what's left is the truth.

Next time I'll tell you about my "glitch in the matrix" experience (;