Credit & Copyright: Russell Croman
Hello out there! How are you?
Better yet, where, precisely, are you?
SETI is looking for you, NASA is
looking for you. For, you see, we
know you're out there. Why would
you, after all, not be out there?
We are here, in our immense little
Galaxy, a mere speck of gathered
matter in the vast, unknowable,
mysterious intriguing, finite/infinite
Universe. There, just a little to the
left, there we are...set your sights to
the Milky Way, we're there, circling
our sun. See us there, we're waving!
Wavering in insecurity simultaneously.
Our most famed astrophysicist warning
us there may be good reason not to
approach you too trustingly brings
conflict to our consuming curiosity.
Yet if we approach in peace, will you
not meet us reflecting identical resolve?
Ah, you are aware of the human
tribal-clan propensity to exclusionary
chauvinism, of the ready resort to
xenophobic suspicion lighting the
volatile torch of conflict. Your historians
have noted our proclivity to drench
our Earth with blood and eagerly harvest
the bitter fruit of unresolved despair.
Better yet, where, precisely, are you?
SETI is looking for you, NASA is
looking for you. For, you see, we
know you're out there. Why would
you, after all, not be out there?
We are here, in our immense little
Galaxy, a mere speck of gathered
matter in the vast, unknowable,
mysterious intriguing, finite/infinite
Universe. There, just a little to the
left, there we are...set your sights to
the Milky Way, we're there, circling
our sun. See us there, we're waving!
Wavering in insecurity simultaneously.
Our most famed astrophysicist warning
us there may be good reason not to
approach you too trustingly brings
conflict to our consuming curiosity.
Yet if we approach in peace, will you
not meet us reflecting identical resolve?
Ah, you are aware of the human
tribal-clan propensity to exclusionary
chauvinism, of the ready resort to
xenophobic suspicion lighting the
volatile torch of conflict. Your historians
have noted our proclivity to drench
our Earth with blood and eagerly harvest
the bitter fruit of unresolved despair.
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