Keyhole To a Vanished World

Civilizations come and go on our small orb Empires "return back to sand" Trapped in the cage of time We can only surmise what happened to the generations before we appeared on the scene There are those among us whose life's work is to find the keyhole to the vanished worlds Researchers find traces of what once in the earth We are hanging a Damoclean sword but perhaps by learning about how our ancestors coped we can save ourselves from the vagaries of fate Throughout the long ages Bards have created pictures of love and honor So, bards of America Lift up your pens! So that future generations will know how we really felt about our blue world