A Faint Violin and the Galaxy

Hmm. from a dream I had about Hope and some gal name of Pandora.

[ Copyright by Jim M. Pierce, 2005-2010. All Rights Reserved. ]

on a distant planet,
far far away,
in time and space,
a small radio station,
listening to the cosmic stars,
heard a faint violin.

playing softly,
somewhere out there,
no crescendos,
nothing frantic,
just softly,
you had to listen carefully.

that civilization disappeared,
nothing was heard from them,
no music, no crowds, all gone.

The galaxy rotated,
just a tiny bit.

some great civilization,
lasting many long years,
heard the violin play,
while the galaxy made a half-turn,
they lasted longer than the first one,
to hear that faint violin.

the next few civilizations,
heard no violin,
just a distant voice,
humming quietly to itself.

the galaxy made a short bit of one turn.

the next civilization,
never having heard of Drake's Equation,
it not having been thought up yet,
the Earth's atmosphere, not even at,
the reducing stage yet,
heard the soft violin,
playing somewhere out there,
in the Deep Dark.

They swept across the entire galaxy,
well, most of it,
no violin player did they find.

It seemed to be coming from,
just over there,
sometimes from the solar system,
their explorers had just left back there.

Sometimes it seemed close by,
like it was keeping pace,
with a ship of theirs,
sometimes it was a faint and distant thing,
on the radio.

It couldn't have been the song from a nova,
nor a black hole,
nor from the in fall of gases,
forming modules and nebulae,
across the galactic deep.

They fell, no records of how and why,
did they leave.

Never the violin, did they find.

Millennia later,
humans came about on green Earth,
but they didn't hear the violin,
nor any voices singing off in the distance.

The galaxy made many a complete revolution,
when the violin didn't play,
and the voice sung not.

It didn't seem to slow things down,
but I can hardly tell if such things happen,
myself.

One day, old Earth having been left behind,
except by a few curators, and the curious,
the violin was heard, very faintly,
it appeared to come from everywhere,
and no where.

Humans didn't dwell on it much,
listened to it once in a long while,
sometimes someone would applaud,
no response did they hear.

Well, its possible the violin did pause,
once,
after several people applauded at the same time,
but nobody else was listening,
but for awhile afterwards,
a voice was heard,
on the same wavelength,
chuckling.

I pass it on,
to another distant being,
in some future time,
to finish,
for I don't know,
how it will end,
probably a long many years,
from now.

[exeunt]