Black with Ink -

Call to the ships on the water

A beacon light as the sun

A harbour safe

From storms

And from gods

Words here are worth more than gold

Ideas set loose to roam

An empire of the mind

A kingdom of parchment

And scrolls

Close by the water’s edge

A city wall was raised

Where roads and rivers

Part and meet

A house of wisdom was made

Where different worlds collide

Where words are set into place

And all good thoughts can be free

Let engineers make the gods speak

And water flow from the hills

With their magic and machines

If there are no high peaks

Build up a mountain of stones

Where the light is low

Make rise a gleaming tower

We see the same stars

Walk the same ground

Lit by the same sun

We could be one

A city bright with flames

A river black with words

Ink can fade and burn

And bleed

But stone will hold the lines

Though broken down in time

They made an empire of drowned words

A kingdom of ashes and fools

We see the same stars

Walk the same ground

Lit by the same sun

We could be one