Bradford Middleton- A Poem

I KNOW WHAT I SAW

I know what I saw I pleaded

I know it sounds weird but I know what it was

All the planets were aligned

And the moon was huge in the daytime sky

When there it was

I know what it was

But I don’t want to say

I’m sick of being ridiculed

And having my claims put down

I saw it from a long way off

It hurtled across the sky

At a velocity and direction I knew was strange

And then there it was

Hovering over the end of the pier

People stood, rubbing their eyes

Unsure of what to say or how to behave

But I know what I saw

Because I’d seen one before

That night many years ago

I had been a young schoolboy

Travelling through northern Italy

On a coach full of rowdy kids

Two bright lights translucent against a big black sky

But even then I knew what I’d seen

Aged ten years old it was clear to me

We’d been visited from beyond the stars

It was just the same on this fateful day

The non-believers stood aghast

Not sure of how to react or what they saw

I knew what it was and knew I had to stay

Watching the unbelievable

Whilst knowing it was only too real

A flying saucer had made its way

Across the universe and had landed

At the bottom of my street over the bloody pier

I know what I saw I’d seen one before



 

BIOGRAPHY

Bradford Middleton was born in 1971 and is a writer of poetry and short fiction who currently resides in Brighton after coming of age in London and then being somewhat transient for a while during which he lived in both Surrey and Staffordshire.  He has so far attained the status of Contributing Poet at the Mad Swirl, and has been published online in numerous places, including Word Riot, Foliate Oak, Dead Beats and Horror, Sleaze Trash as well as in print through the Poetry Quarterly journal. He has a novel near completion entitled Dive which someone will get to read soon.