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Hours and hours

Alone in silence

Listening to

The cosmic static

Brief and tantalizing

My hopes begin to rise

Just to fall apart

Again

Analyze

The darkness

Search for

The sounds

Of life

Listen for

A gentle

Rise and fall

Twenty four and one

Are scanning the black

Waiting

For an alien voice

A crushing amount

Of failed endeavors

Is this

All for nothing?

Analyze

The darkness

Search for

The sounds

Of life

Listen for

A gentle

Rise and fall

And then

A wave of noise

Structured

Pulsation

Two, three

Five and seven

Mathematical

In nature

Words in

Harmonics

We have

Contact

The world

Does not know

And so

They fear

Casting doubt on

My beliefs

Religious fanaticism

Seeks to subvert

To dethrone

Our cosmic truth

With bated breath

I impatiently wait

Will I be

The one to go?

Forced through

Space and time

Faster than light

Words are

Not enough

I had no idea

Struck silent

In awe