Empty3 Poem by John Prophet

Empty.
Where?
Is there
anyone
else?
Alone.
Any others
out there?
Unanswerable!
Estimated
two trillion
galaxies
in the
visible
universe.
Each housing
billions
of stars.
For many,
the light
we now see
departed
billions
of years
ago.
Before
our sun
was born.
Though
all the
light
we see
now
may be
dead.
What's
happening
there now
we won't
know for
billions
of years.
They currently
could be
teaming
with life,
but we'll
never know.
We'll be
gone.
Are we alone
in the universe?
Doubt it.