User:CarrieBerg/Archaeology

Through eyes unblinded by day

And seeing even in darkest night

The illusions that are lost in the mist

Are illumed with phosphorescent light

The ancient truths long untold

Are re-etched in unfeeling stone

And voices rusted with disuse

These forgotten prophecies intone

Oh! Would that we can remember

What has once gone before

But the collective memory of the present

Destroys these artifacts of yore

Left with words unwritten

Deciphering the blanks like a code

Searching for answers in shadows

Reaching in vain for all that is old

How can the past be forgotten?

How can the present be blind?

What can we learn of the future?

What marvelous things will we find?

But the dust has long been collecting

The words are coated in grime

Soon the voices will forever be silenced

There wisdom lost again in time

Shall we ever learn our lesson?

Can the past shine on today?

Or will the lights be broken

Shattered as we hurry on our way?