Memo from Another Planet

We monitored every thought     examined every move

teleported to your planet undetectable replicas of our being

 

They pinpointed the weapons stockpiled on orbiting satellites

     and atomized them

 

It may concern you to know that the precision-guided

munitions and torpedoes aboard every submarine

     and battleship in your oceans

have also been neutralized     like the Swiss Navy

 

You weren’t able to experience the phenomenon     

     No one on Earth did

It might also enlighten your life forms to learn that we

disintegrated every nuclear warhead you tried to conceal

 

in subterranean silos     every armed forces tank     surface-

to-air missile     the stealthiest seek-and-destroy vehicles

your leaders and scientists could devise

     were obliterated simultaneously

 

We accomplished these objectives in less than a femtosecond

 

Your quantum physicists have yet to discover

     the imperceptible laser employed

 

Don’t bother to search for the weapons     they have been

reduced to the nothingness of their source

along with all the factories that produced toxic material

 

We hope you aren’t mortally offended     

     It was failsafe

 

We regret any inconvenience

and apologize if any boundaries were violated

 

Please don’t be alarmed if we find it necessary

to transmit you to our planet with telepathy

     It would be painless