Very, very big Black-holes!
Black-holes are eating the galaxies.
If our universe were not expanding so quickly
Those giant vacuums would suck everything clean.
I picture our tiny bit of space,
Hidden behind stars and dust,
Hidden from the view
Of extraterrestrials.
How can a telescope announce
The discovery of some object
15,000 light years away?
Do we leave a trail back to us?
We are very busy here.
By the time the light from
A distant galaxy reaches us
Earth will be unpeopled.
For a planet of a very ordinary star
We make far too much noise.
Maybe a landlord planet 45 million light years away
Will revoke our lease?
A notice might be posted on Alpha Centuri
And after one quarter of a light year neighbors might stop by,
Curious about the cessation of heavy metal sounds.
They will arrive, scratch their multiple heads, and move on.
In their journals they will note the many tall buildings
And dead scrub oaks.
They will record the huge arsenal of obsolete weapons
And conclude we lost too much in our journey out of the trees.
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