A friendly alien obviously from a more advanced civilization than our poor planet, has some unpleasant observations to make upon the profane existence of this self-important world called Earth.

Cosmic Traveler Looking For A Nice World

There is this grim world I came to visit.
They say it’s a nice place--but it isn’t!
But while there I did see some pleasant things:
A small school church, with a bell that rings.
And strange human children...swinging on swings!

Other childish humans were also there,
Gathered and doing something they call prayer.
And dressed up all nice--neither flecked nor flawed,
(But looking really reverent and awed!)--
I found them praying to someone named God.

But what’s in a name...but what worlds become?
Yes, a different one where I come from!
And beyond my unseen reverent lurch
I watch them fuss and flock inside a church...
To find the god lost in their human search.

Oh such a nice place--but nicer outside!
Where other gods of worse natures abide.
The gods called hunger, poverty and need.
(Gods called jealousy, selfishness and greed!)
Behind whom prayer and reverence recede.

Oh outside, looking in, it’s all the same:
Another world riddled with guilt and shame!
One more world in my itinerary
In my quest to find one luminary...
And not so wicked and ordinary.

Hell, life’s full of disappointments, and more!
But I’ve got other planets to explore.
And other races to seek out and find:
Of pure spirit and utopian mind!
That the same nameful Creator designed.

For out here in the great, vast universe
Better worlds exist and haply converse
(Finding ones like Earth is our only curse!)
Still, I may return again to visit...
They say it’s a nice place--but it isn’t!