Intelligent Life

To find no intelligent life
In this huge universe
Of trillions of stars
Seems quite perverse.

It really is a mystery
That just on little earth,
An outlying planet
In the Milky Way galaxy,
Seems to exist
The only intelligent life
We know of and see.

Could it possibly be,
Intelligent life
Threatens the universe
And is a hazard marked
For destruction by entropy
By unknown powers in a scheme,
Incomprehensible to you and me.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2008 Alfred Charasz