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