Life In The Universe

Convinced that we are not alone
in the vastness of the universe
astronomers dream of extra-terrestrial
life; an intelligence not unlike our
own. Great dish telescopes revolve

to the music of the spheres
picking up radio waves and the
scientists working feverishly
to decode - to no avail
             finding  nothing in that

dense, dark, frigid infinity to
convince that mindmates may exist.
Themselves training devices our
way, picking up signals and
frantically unscrambling. Myself
I constantly turn my radio dial

looking for signals of intelligent
life right down here. Those
beings could be coming up with
the very same results. Nothing

Nothing out there.
Nothing down here.
There is no intelligent life.