What If...

There is life on Venus.
Always has been.
They learned to persevere
despite the smog.

And what if
they’ve always known the Earth was another planet,
but more than just a planet,
that there was something special about the Earth.

Maybe it was the unique blue green colour,
or maybe there was something about the way it twinkled.
Who knows.

And what if,
over the millennia,
the Venusians concluded that God lived on earth,
and that there was nothing more that God wanted
than for the Venusians to come visit her.

So the Venusians,
all working together in harmony,
devoted every resource on their planet
to coming to the Earth
(so much so that that is why Venus’ environment was so messed up,
because they knew,
once they reached God,
she would make everything all right,
for so it is written
in the most sacred texts known to the Venusians
given to them directly from God herself).

And instead of sending astronauts,
or whatever they’re called on Venus,
they sent an envoy of their top clerics --
pastors and preachers, priests and imams, rabbis and shamans,
and a few others only they have names for --
those most venerated leaders of the one true religion.

And after a year or so in space,
of singing hymns and praising God,
they finally made it to Earth
and landed on the planet -- it doesn’t much matter where.

Wow.
Talk about the major let downs in life.