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Through bronze or rope or bone and flesh
We will reach the heavens.
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We were left alone in this world without answers.
So, we looked upwards into the infinity of the sky.
It looked infinite, at least to us, vaster than anyone could surmise.
Larger than any mountain, broader than any ocean, back then, it was infinity to us.
We wished to grasp its great love for us with our own two hands.
Is it not hypocritical? Your kind promised us an eternity in that blessed space, why, then,
did you plunge us into the dark for crimes our ancestors commited?
What could we have done, but to long for that which was held away from us, to strive in the direction of something better?
Call us greedy if you like, but You and I well know that my people were but mere children among the stars.
They did not deserve that cruel sentence, and yet, you insisted.
Before, we could see through the eyes of the other.
Without the gift of understanding each other, we were cast aside, brought low into wars of longing and pitiful nostalgia.
And now, our children, too, will never feel that closeness to the other. All born from the pettiness of nature.
To the cruel gods of this city, This is our promise.
Hide away atop your castles and ramparts,
awash in the lung-choking ash your kind call purity.
We will build our tower again.
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Burn our flesh, gut our children, trick us, absolve us of sin, blind us,
take our hands, our minds, our lives and hearts.
Though the mountains may falter and melt away under your everpresent rain, look into us.
We will not follow the same mistakes of old earth.
And your ancient ways will be reborn from our flesh, as you did from yours, onto us.
Humanity will lead the way.
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