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Start with a Star

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Stars

Start with our own

Star

It’s wonderful

And gives us leave

To try for now

To reach

Another one

Before

A billion years

When we must go

There

To survive

Further

To strive

And also

Thrive

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Which is the hallmark

Of our single race

In cooperation

With all other matter

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Strive

And thrive

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Until we meet

Another race

That thrives

By staying in one place

Those who explore

By sending tentacles

Or other metaphors

Out there

Out here

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We meet them

And someday

We really meet them

And might be friends

For different ways

Our differences

Enhances

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Then cooperatively

We reach

Out and in

Some more

In fact

Throughout a galaxy

And then

Beyond the rim

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Stars we make

And then we make

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C L Couch

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