Deliberately Buried, An Object of Unknown Function, Substance &   Origin

after 2001:

A Space Odyssey

Six men stand on the lip of a hole dug in the moon. As they descend a slope, a requiem heaves, then swells. Tongues ululate, throats throb. The bravest man, a naked ape, extends a gloved hand, to touch the beyond come near. Nothing happens. It is still. Nothing but a slab. And then, being human, five pose proudly before it, to be carved into time by the sixth for the sake of vanity and fleeting glory, but the object objects, piercing the vacuum of space with a signal of unknowable purpose, only one possibility yielding a bedroom of white lit from below, with statuary. All others convey nothing but annihilation, just annihilation.