Alien Abduction

Imagine your first sight
of your birth site
the moment you left the womb

Staring up in an operating theater
Blinding light
back-lighting masked faces
looming in and out of the shadows above you
pairs of eyes
staring down
unloving fingers
poking and prodding
cold instruments pricking

and we have a recollected infant vision of a hospital birth
indelibly imprinted on consciousness
one that resurfaces years later
and more or less mirrors the same negative discription of an alien abduction
many thousands of "abductees" attest to

This is one of the reasons why a natural birth
in a natural environment home
is essential