Dead Language

My eyes are heavy.
How long have I studied the shapes of your letters,
The patterns and measures?
And here in this archive: a new dawn for our lives?
Lessons to be learned - a future for us to earn.

A code in the margins
And ciphers of lost things revealed by the moonlight.
My aching to learn burns bright.
The systems that failed you - I must know the whole truth.
The world that we make can't rise from the same mistakes!

Speak your secrets in your dead language.
Remake everything - build with courage.

It's words that shape the world.
Your words will shake the world!