Throwing rocks

across a pond

leaves ripples along the surface.

Distance is irrelevant

when the universe

allows for infinite time

whether one year

or one million years

to earn acknowledgment.

From the towers and antennas

and appliances

are radiowaves and microwaves

and rays of infrared

which beam and cluster

and condense and cloud

polluting the air and space

forever left in the universe.

I wonder what others will say

when

no distance can separate

and no time can protect them.