Families
Lineage
Generation upon generation
Piles of bodies
Death
Decay
Smiling faces
Warm embraces
Loving stares
People who care
Living a lifetime
Some lives are short
Some lives are longer
People die naturally
People die with violence
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
All end up in the ground
On the ground
Worm food
Fertilizer
Giving new life
But sometimes
The bodies are stacked
So high
Mass graves
Cover mass crimes
Masses of humanity
The bones of civilization
The archaeology of dominion
People look at bricks
And stones
Piled upon each other
And say 'this is history'
It is truer perhaps
To look at the bones
This is the history
Of mankind
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