Finding Place In Alien Spaces

Migration is what all living species do over 

time and distance. The spread of species from

their singular places of origin has taken place

from time immemorial, when non-native species

navigate their way to geographies unfamiliar

yet holding some mysterious promise of posing

a venue for renewal and prosperity. When their

places of origin are no longer havens the

existential yearning to move on advantageously

to places of promise moves populations to seek

that which eludes them from birth in places of

adverse life conditions. As foreign species finding

place in alien spaces where opportunities abound

they make their place grasping the rewards of

chance while their memory transforms their 

former homes into places of comfort, drawing

them to return in brief spurts of nostalgia to those

places still lacking the graces that propelled their

dispersal. But culture is transportable accompanying

the mind with the fond delusion of superiority

leading to leaning on their numbers to import

customs, values and emotional dystopian urges

of sect and clan irreconcilable with the heritage

culture and values of their adopted homes until a

conflagration of titanic force sees the interlopers

violently asserting their dominion of conquest.