To Vega... Nebulous Anatomy

Nineteen Thirty Six
An Icon of evil
Broadcast into space
At the speed of light

A Space faring beholder
ears trained to the void
with vast cosmic knowledge
yearning to share
the enigmatic laws of the universe

A message received
a message returned
Buried in prime numbers
a framework for universal solidarity

An uprising of joy
Premonitions of pain
Is this word of God?
Is this life from beyond?

A dodecahedron falls
Through the heart of atomic structure
Piercing through the fabric of space and time

"A tingling in the spine
A catch in the voice
A faint sensation of a distant memory
as if falling from a great height" - C. Sagan

Lost between immensity and eternity
A new cosmic perspective

Thrust into the ocean of space and time
Yearning to catch wind
of intelligence that antedates the universe

A puzzling axiom
We struggled against the counterintuitive
In direct contradiction to our prejudices
The past proliferators of falsehood
Now bow in shame to the paragon of truth.