Intelligent Life in Outer Space?

If intelligent life
In outer space would exist
Some signals will persist
But there are none
Which means they never were
Or they are long, long gone,
For the scheme of things
Which us existence brings
And runs all facets
Of our universe
May find all intelligent life
Destructive and perverse,
Thus, life on earth
May possibly not last
And be on the way out
In an all-consuming
Nuclear blast.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz