i reached the core once the peak of life the bleeding eyes of empty shells a shattered vision the failure that was man higher spires deeper graves graveyard horizon whence my eyes can t flee every ruin is convicting me they all as one her voice foremost too dead to bear fingers damn then crumble to dust their touch is stone the present past passed away as life is lost in the dead city only the echoes of my steps are alive like in a dream i entered a shattered and half buried house through its gaping eyeholes inside a body of rags and ashes she s long dead unknown forgotten i wipe the dirt from my wet eyes but i can hardly see look a brittle newspaper this cannot be it s all a mad unending nightmare these voices i did nothing nothing you hear me leave me alone you live where we are doomed to die you must reveal our secret bane