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