From Titus Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri -- 218 BC
Vanadium speciem de caelo adfulsisse
or "phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky"
Even as we worker bees perform labor
We know that this life can be ordinary
It is painful, repetitive, true drudgery
Dull routines that day by day will grind
Conformity, compulsory participation
The boredom hurts inside, a form suicide
So when unusual events happen we notice
Forever after we promise to remember well
But we are forced to consider, to decide
Will those who didn't see what we saw laugh
Making the rest of life here, a form of Hell
Mockery for having witnessed the unusual
Daily life demands obedience to the mode
And we've no choice but to remain silent
If our life changes from the experience
We can never share what we've seen
For the others in our world demand quiet
So that nothing will disturb their hive mind
They demand what we've seen to be unseen
1561 04/14 Nuremberg Germany
Residents of Nuremberg a battle in the sky, between flying angular and spherical objects
