The universe is teeming with life - an
assertion based on probabilities.
But it’s got no heart to thrust a knife in -
this forest we only see through these trees,
with no life for us to transplant or kill
because the distances are far too vast.
We’ll never spy beyond our windowsill
any prequel life or life for us to outlast!
James Webb, deGrasse Tyson, and Brian Cox…
There ain’t no way, they way, we’ll ever know
a non-earthly crab or lion or fox
that beings with language might like to show
to such similar beings as we are
with thoughts such as these as they mount their rising star.