Poem - Listen

Can you hear me?

Are you there?

All alone like me.

I can see you across the void.
  Your home, comfortable and warm.

I send you messages with information.
  To engage you, but you don't reply.

Is it that hard?  Do you understand me?
  Or is the ability just beyond your grasp?

The hard work of advance.  Each one lleading
  to the next bringing technology to
  to use for a purpose.

Far away across space and time, we
  look and ask if anyone is there.
  And wait for a reply.

Time is our currency, while radio waves
  make a slow march, looking for attention.
  Of those that can hear me.

-- 1999