EYE TO EYE

I remember when they came. 

The others – jumping from an alien bird, with their high-tech suits, advanced opaque visors.

And their weapons. Their state-of-the-art killing tools.

I remember the high frequency bursts.

Fire running wild.

Our homes, reduced to ashes.

Our people, so many of us, dead meat piled up.

The smoke. The stench of horror. 

Once they decided it was all over, nothing left worth destroying, it was time for their meal.

Some of them sat down outside the bird and removed their helmets.

I saw then that they were all human. 

Men and women. 

Just like us.

I remember one of them looked at me.

A man.

He had the saddest eyes.

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