In Ashes We Lie - Grade

Are we here to understand or to survive?

We are building mountains

The blueprints are being drawn

Yet breathless words pour from these eyes

Mounds lay like bodies in the morgue side by side

In ashes we lie, in ashes we lie

We’re so unkind

We’re so disguised

In ashes we lie, 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 gray scale coating

In ashes we, in ashes we lie

So travel broken rivers across manufactured landscapes

And along the rebuilt curve of the planet

Yet breathless words pour from these eyes, now