Other Stars

Perhaps

It is us

Or it was us

Or we will be

Something always in flux

A work of art in progression

No reply

Nothing to share

Like any alien civilization

Living with the technology

And enough time to get here

Really

In reality

It doesn't need

It never needed

Or wanted anything from us

Nothing

Including our stars

Was ever necessary

And there are plenty of others

Other stars

Other brighter suns

Between here and there

It just takes longer

That's all

Maybe

There was never

Or there wasn't ever

Or there was life

Or there was none

But possibly

Or probably

There were none

With intelligence

And sustaining

Enough life

Space flight requires

Self generation of power.

A unique type

An evolved being

Living without

Largely alone

Yet with a large potential

Longing to find

Learning to search

Looking to understand

To move enough mass

To encompass a star

Would demonstrate

An intelligence

Enough intelligence

That does not need

To field a star for energy

Maybe

They got where they are

Eradicating

Everything more

Or anything they perceive

Or could be perceived as a threat

Or worse yet

Maybe

They eradicate anything

Which has any remote possibility

Of some day being a real threat

Like us

To them

To us or them

Which is why

Probably why we are still here

Perhaps

They had it correct

Or we always were correct

Existing as only

Electromagnetic pulses

A civilization this advanced

Might have seeded every star system

Living within 1,000 light years

Filling the other stars with life

We might have created them

They may have created us

Not so long ago

In only 1,480 years

Assuming lightspeed travel.

More like roughly 3000 light years

If they travel

At true lightspeed

Not theoretical

1480 years out for our signal

1480 years back for their craft.

And 40 years for planning

With no need to try to do lightspeed

The speed of light limits us

To exist on this planet forever

It is only possible

To migrate

Using generational colonies

Colony vessels

Vessels of iniquity

Orbiting other suns

No one will ever survive

It is beyond physics

And human longevity

Whoever leaves

Dies in space

Dies along the way

Their descendants

Are those who arrive

At the other stars...