Three days later

An uncertain contact

Reaches out for survivors

A species beyond known space

We came here to propose an offer

You'll give us all and your own planet

And in turn, we'll save you from utter extinction

Is this what it has come to

Are we truly lost

This offer our only hope

The terms are out of scope

Four more hours

They contemplate the offer

An offer which is clearly absurd

Do we have another choice?

The moon is full of questions

Salvation at what cost

The fate of humankind

The Scales of Prevailment

Left to us for to control

We have no need for you

Something we wish to bereave

Your fate in our hands is the future

And the hope of your survival

Six hours more

And clearly this is not the answer

We'll have to find another way to the world

We won't accept your terms

We will prevail

We shall discuss no more

We are

The collective humankind

Is now determined to be

Here for many moons to pass