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The Coming of Tan
Poem
Recited to : Riley
by: O-Qua Tangin Wann

I have traveled far and swiftly, across yon deep and leaning sky:
I have witnessed a nova's burst, and saw a living planet die.
Across the voids of space unmeasured, Oh yea, Omsa-La-Juwann:
I have pierced the quantum octaves, mastered hyper warps in time.

Vaulting onward o'er the spiral, on a journey here to save:
Fellow beings wrought of madness, from yon weeping, living grave.
Nestled there upon the ether, as a jewel among the stones:
Earth the precious orb of legend, soon your glowing shall be done.

Children of the living waters, possessors of the staff of reason:
Beings of celestial promise, doomed to perish in mid-season.
From the stone axe to the heavens, lo' the vision did not fade:
Still that pulsing seed of hatred, lay thy fate beneath the spade.

Before me the planet lay in shambles, eco-destruction beyond repair:
By the greed of false controllers, acids now permeate the air.
Pristine waters from the mountains, die en-route down to the sea:
Thus to hasten soon the horror, the sapien race may cease to be.

All my dreams of bio-perfection, was but just a futile deed:
Seeking to create a pure utopia, we unleashed a monster seed.
Still within them lay the spirit, to transcend the rabid beast:
And to comprehend the Omsa of the elements of peace.

Oh ye' marvels of creation, why have you not sought the light:
Must you fade into the shadows, of that still, cold azure night.
Unto you my sign is written, there upon the living fields.
Lo' the circle is eternal, though you perish, you yet shall live.

Interfacing the acids, beneath some new Jurassic sea:
To turn again and scan the heavens, and to learn again to be, to be.
If I did not breach your stratus, you would surely some day breach mine:
Tis a factor without question, tis a factor but of time.

I have not returned to conquer, nor to alter the flow of fate:
But simply to gather a certain number, soon before it is too late.
Too unstable to embrace, yet far too noble to cast away:
Beautiful life form though unsuccessful, might succeed another day:
There upon the flowering meadows, Oh, shining precious Biaveh.

I asked Riley how the Poem came to be.
He told me he woke from a dream about Tan... it was 26 September 1990
remembering he saying to Tan that 'you' aliens are hard on people they abduct
causing pain and nightmares. Riley remembers Tan told him to get out a pen
and Tan recited a poem to Riley in the dream. Riley thought he should write it down.
What an amazing poem. It could not come from the imagination of a cotton sharecropper kid.
It is on page 5 of: The Coming of Tan. It is an overview of the contents.
http://thecomingoftan.com/read~from~the~book/bookcover/bookcover.html

I am currently reading Riley's book,
The Coming of Tan and last night I was moved to tears. The way he speaks of how
we have poisoned our Earth and the terrible way we are controlled by the power of
money and depravity in our Government and big business instead of helping one another.
It's exactly how I've been feeling for some time but it was as if I was seeing it from Tan's
eyes. I felt the sadness and senselessness of it all. I can only imagine what I have yet to
read in finishing the book. It's touched me in ways that I will never be the same.
God Bless both you and Riley for sharing this with us all. ~ Sue

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