Blips across the universe
Snugly sitting within
Their Goldilocks zone
If they are out there
We're unlikely to meet
In the same sliver of time
Humanity but a heartbeat
In the history of earth
We died before their birth
Gods rolling dice
Playing celestial odds
They died before our birth
Or set off before
We evolved to arrive
After we had gone
The vagaries of physics
Geological time
And statistics
Only human arrogance
Assumes we'll always be here
To meet and greet them
Or that they'd care enough
To come and visit
A world so unwelcoming
Time's uncaring crucible
Violently brutally bubbling
As civilisations come and go
The unbearable endless
Vastness of empty eternity
Life passing in eternal night
MAWH, March 2017
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