Anyone Out There?

He made man in His image The Book said Man defined life To his liking Made it mandatory Water should exist For intelligence to sustain He stood gasping Looking at the heavens Am I alone here? Is anyone out there? The stars as always Looked down upon him The ignorant fool With their shimmering gaze In utter unconcern Who thought on borrowed intelligence And yet prided He owned and knew everything The master of the universe And now his research has found A planet somewhere In the wilderness of the skies A body of matter exists With an abundance of water on it Possibility of a companion on it He got out of his bath-tub naked Shouted to the world Eureka, Eureka! I have found A habitat in the universe That can house An image of mine Life on earth Watered by the very water That I drink That I offer to the Lord In my morning prayers And in Holy Communion Across the world I am not alone Never have I been A being more intelligent Who breathed acid fumes Took his daily bath In acid ponds Laughed at the mundane fool Holding aloft a toast Of cheers with his acid drink A mountain inert Right beside him Pitied how far ignorance could go This guy with the telescope Knows everything Yet he fails To read the pulsating heart Of the very thing next to him That he considers lifeless And prefers to philander In ignorance of the sublimest kind Never has anyone here been alone When the Lord is constant companion And who that Lord never ever ask When the asking is a borrowed task