Good Luck

Good Luck

Science makes amazing progress,
Curing illness, quelling fears.
Benefitting from new knowledge,
You might live a thousand years.

When they've made the vital breakthroughs,
I will be beyond repair.
You might see the distant future.
I, alas, will not be there.

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Where is Everybody?

The whole Universe should be crawling with life,
Eating, breeding, joyriding.
If any of them are as clever as us,
Where not on Earth are they hiding?