Published on high stone walls
Battered by bullets
Scratched out by iron sticks
Wrecked by drifting ruins
Burnt into ash, spun
Into typhoons spanning seas
Ingested by cloudborne plankton
Mutated to survive the most hellish heat
Three million years on
Astroarcheology reads its meaning
Discovers why they fled this world
We must toss our sorrow into space
Are you strong enough to hear?