In the Basement of the Tower of Babel

We understood it, once
The old language
Spoken wordlessly together
Before the sins
And transgressions
 
It calls still
Our hearts hear
Minds perceive
In our bones it rings
Our souls aflame
 
Remnants only
Of an age gone by
Absent of impurities
United by a language
No one spoke
All understood
 
In the basement
Of the Tower of Babel
Our common humanity
Rests among the ruins
 
Monuments, tomes, civilizations
What we might have been
What we were
What we failed to be
 
In all endeavors
That forgot our language
That spoke of higher powers
Yet forgot the highest of all
And left humanity behind
 
In a magnificent tower
Crumbling around itself
Built in pursuit of the illusion
That we mattered least
 
And so we forgot our language
And locked ourselves away
In the basement
Of the Tower of Babel