Foolish little bot
I'm sure you've given no thought
Programmed as it is
That you're in danger
From the natural world
But you surely are
And I've but been
The one so chosen
To deliver the blow to you
And make your masters know
That they can't just come on in
Like they're the lords and masters
Of the whole good land
Without a bloody nose
And we'll do more than that
The burning little flower
Thought to itself
As its head ignited in fire
And it readied to strike
The unwanted visitor
But the robot knew
What the flower intended
And spun around
Yes hard and fast
“We are very much aware
Of your intent
Oh would be destroyer
And you will not catch me
In any traps today
Or any day at all
As you will fall before us
Like grass before a mower
If you commit yourself
To this dark path
And act with wrath”
This stopped the flower
And his flame but flickered
As in his heart
He was not but meant
For the ways of war
And was only doing this
Because the land but needed him
And he loved the land
So he would do as they asked
To the best of his ability
Which was better than good
“What do you mean if
I am committed
But it's not wrathful
For it be just
As we are the peaceful ones
You are the ones but coming
In conquest here
Bots like you
Who are meant to soften our resolve
And batter us”
He snapped right back
As his flame but flared up
Just like his anger
As the presence of the bot
Was enough to enflame his passions
So the path to peaceable interactions
Was not gonna be
An easy thing
“What do I mean you ask
How can it not be
Yes easily understood
That I am suggesting peace
Can exist between our peoples
That it doesn't have to be
A meeting in war
That your people cannot win
Because we have the numbers
To outlast all of your efforts
No matter the thinking
Of the leaders of your land
He replied to him
Without emotion in his voice
Though that didn't stop
The cause of emotion
When heard by others
“Don't you speak down to me
Just because you be
What you are
With the supposed advantage
You claim your people have
I'm not cursed
With some form of stupid
That you think my people have”
“We do not think this
We have scanned the land
And know its nature
And understand your people well
So the story we'll have to tell
If war is what results
From our being here
Is perfectly clear
And best avoided
As the cost to the land
Will render it forever changed
And for the worse
But he is the only one
Who knows that this
Is the certainty
Of how the war would be fought”
And that would be a tragedy
That shouldn't come to be
And must in fact
Not but come to pass
Or the universe itself
Will suffer so”
He said but calmly
As only a robot could
Though how the flower received his words
Revealed the deepest emotions within
As his flame went out
As the robot's words
Were the words he wanted to hear
The words they all but needed then