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Like a fruit

In the rotten garden

Like a soul

In the river Styx



Like a stone

In the unending desserts

Like a word

In the city of Babylon



Not understood

Yet true and spoken

The sun is reached

With wax and feathers



Where worlds collide

Between Euphrates and Tigris

The setting sun

In the Occident



Where monuments

Serve as tombstones

Just to serve the dead



And what did it lead to

Thousand years of sand

A civilization

Collapsed in itself



And what did it lead to

Thousand years of sand

Thousand years of wisdom

Yet just remorse



Where dynasties

Erect themselves

The fertile crescent

Shines for the realm



Mesopotamia

Land of the gods

And nothing left

But sand and stone



The library of Assure

The temple of Ara-li

Legacies burnt to the ground

Forgotten and vanished in sand



And what did it lead to

Thousand years of sand

A civilization

Collapsed in itself



And what did it lead to

Thousand years of sand

Thousand years of wisdom

Yet just remorse



Nothing less and nothing more

Nothing less and nothing more

Nothing less and nothing more

Nothing less and nothing more