In Ashes We Lie Grade

are we here to understand or to survive?

we are building mountains

the blueprints are being drawn

as breathless words pour from these eyes

mounds lay like bodies in the morgue side by side,

in ashes we lie

are we here to understand or to survive?

smoke screens and bandages

cannot hide the icons in architecture

that stand as archives of colossal structure

assembled to destruction layer

in degrees of grey scale coating

so travel broken rivers across manufactured landscapes

and along the rebuilt curve of the planet

as breathless words pour from these eyes