Knowledge

And another one fell
From the open window
Down to the street
To the clutter below

There was a thud
Soft but audible
And again it happened
Without delay

More and more fell
Forming a great mass
Wide and growing
Spreading like a disease

It engulfed the land
An ocean emerged
From a mass of nothing
Soon the world would die

Leaving behind only this
Why did they let it happen
The sorrow, the fear
Still it grew larger

The size incomprehensible
All life dissolved by it
Once held sacred
Now the image of evil

Those that escaped
Would be gone by night
Where was the light
Their savior had departed

Screaming in torment
Those left melted away
No souls were saved
No one cared to repent

All gone, gone for ever
To never return
Their replacements would arrive
Only to repeat this

No one will ever learn
The force they wield
Is their destroyer
Why can't they turn