Oct 2016
Was it worth all that time
The eye-blurring number columns
The hair-triggered ear tuned
To filter white nights?
That stretched toward red
Five years on. Sagittarius flared an arrow
Seventy two seconds
Across the dark
To tell us nothing
Contact details lost, no message
Whisper or shout
Perhaps already gone
Years later we angled our needle
Ten thousands calls pulsing out
Streamed Twitter in reply
Our inbox remaining empty
The eye-blurring number columns
The hair-triggered ear tuned
To filter white nights?
That stretched toward red
Five years on. Sagittarius flared an arrow
Seventy two seconds
Across the dark
To tell us nothing
Contact details lost, no message
Whisper or shout
Perhaps already gone
Years later we angled our needle
Ten thousands calls pulsing out
Streamed Twitter in reply
Our inbox remaining empty
In the 1970s CETI received a signal from deep space .After long attempts to discover its identity and the dismissal of it being a natural phenomenon, it was tentatively conclude that the signal may have come from an extra terrestrial source.
