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Why are we alone?

The Great Silence: a paradox unfolds

Of all the worlds

Practically infinite

For all messages sent starwards

They remain unanswered

How could it be from so many opportunities?

Surely we cannot be the one unique story of creation

Hereinafter we explore

the viable explanations of the prime contradiction

As the search continues to fail

The deafening silence grows

A problem of distance

Our window is open while others have closed

Or maybe intelligence has no evolutionary goal

Forlorn or exceedingly rare

A final filter still lies ahead

The universe is too miraculous

Not to be experienced

by an entity

that appreciates the beauty

How we came to be is a footnote

What we could achieve is an unwritten story

So in answer to your first question

“Why are we alone?”

Look to the following context

All great and precious things are lonely

Existing is the underlying responsibility