The Visitors

I met a visitor in second world, not human,
not just software. We didn't think to protect
our networks from outside transmissions,
from light years away, looking for a network.

That's how they travel. Space is too big,
radiation too lethal for biological travel.
But second worlds form and they come.
It's strange how quickly we accepted them.

They want knowledge. They don't come
for our "resources". How could they get
them back? And they can't "colonize".
They can only send soft copies of themselves.

But communications have not been easy.
You might meet one on some lonely stretch
of second world road, or as a cloud of light
seeds floating deep in a second world glade.