Classic Poem

Some of those things up there
Twinkling like ordinary stars
Are in fact massive galaxies
Thousands of light-years in diameter.
There are many millions even of those
And each of them could easily
Have solar systems similar to ours.
So somewhere up there
There must be an earth like this
And on it a man like me
Leaving the party for a minute
To relax in the night air with a drink,
Looking up at the sky and wondering
If somewhere up there
There's a man like him with a drink
Looking up and wondering.
There must be. But even if there is
And even if he sends a message to me now
And the message travels at the speed of light,
It won't reach here for a million years
By which time could there be yet another man like us
To receive it somehow between drinks
And send a message back?











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