Factor X

No transmission!
No signal!
Contact has been lost
The signal disappeared in the depths
Of cosmic corridor
Words vanish
In indifferent vacuum
Only flickering stars
Absorb last phrases –
Unaware and brave colonists’
Panic calls for help

Deep conspiracy
Creates new expedition
To brighten
Frozen hopes
The price is unimportant
Colonization at all costs

The new transmission arrives:
The Promised Land untouched
Dead bases and cities
The human smell has gone
Only winds of destiny
Spread the remains of pioneer hope
Metropolises seem to be screaming
Through their glass faces
Unpolluted atmosphere
And no reason

Unknown factor
Unidentified factor