In the Basement of the Tower of Babel

We understood it, once The old language Spoken wordlessly together Before the sins And transgressions It calls still Our hearts hear Minds perceive In our bones it rings Our souls aflame Remnants only Of an age gone by Absent of impurities United by a language No one spoke All understood In the basement Of the Tower of Babel Our common humanity Rests among the ruins Monuments, tomes, civilizations What we might have been What we were What we failed to be In all endeavors That forgot our language That spoke of higher powers Yet forgot the highest of all And left humanity behind In a magnificent tower Crumbling around itself Built in pursuit of the illusion That we mattered least And so we forgot our language And locked ourselves away In the basement Of the Tower of Babel

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