Permanently eavesdropping on the teeming emptiness of space,
The radio-telescopic, cupped earpiece of the human race
May one day make possible the event for which we've always yearned,
A moment touched with trepidation out of fear of being spurned.
The wonder and the horror when it dawns we aren't unique,
That Earth is not the one-off, one trick, Universe's freak.
For there is no way of knowing what might be taken as the norm:
They might be the same as we are ........ or an intelligent life form!
Macclesfield, 27th. November, 2011