“Who Wants to live Forever? – if love must die”
Brian May
The words of seven North American poets
are inscribed on a plaque which the Lucy
spacecraft is carrying, as it travels between
Earth and the Trojan asteroids for the next
million years. Another capsule cast into deep
space, addressed this time to our descendants.
Peace and Love, says Ringo Starr— curated
evidence meant to show we were not really
monsters. That we tried, believing in what we
called the basic goodness of the human heart,
despite the wars we waged and our neverending
extraction of precious elements for profit. After
the launch, the naked eye won't see how our
dispatches fare; they'll circle the long orbit of time,
signalling our hope—the way I tell myself it isn't
foolish to think that someday, I'll hear from you.
Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003.
