Greetings
GREETINGS
Look up and witness the sight !
Everyone should share my delight
At the mighty sky with myriad light -
The crackle of stars on a January night.
There, from this ocean of nothing
Between me and them, nor up nor down,
Their message comes to me after sailing
Tirelessly and unendingly , seeking ground:
And settles into my eye and is satisfied
To have reached its destination aglow,
Telling me that starlife still existed
When it set off so long ago.
In the same random way
Our own sun’s lightboat reaches them
With the same millennial delay
Over this silk sea without hem.
It means that they know we existed,
That we had life, our sails didn’t luff.
A simple greeting is our message:
And that is epitaph enough.
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2011
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