Alien

Wouldn’t it be grand if there were a good
Way to tell a story without people

Or anthropomorphized creatures filling
The list of the dramatis personae?

Pity the burden of cosmologists
Who struggle to narrate the universe

As epic events their conspecifics
Can find compellingly fascinating

Without having access to characters,
Not even one daemonic deity,

No heroes, no romances, no monsters,
Just black holes, dark matter, dark energy,

Using the uncanny sense of the dark
For all the heavy lifting, to what end?

They can’t even grant an apocalypse
For certain and, so far, no aliens.