Walls of scroll and ink divine
A temple forged in thought and time
Pages speak in tongues of stars
Truths once whispered now behind bars

Ashes of Alexandria
Flames devour the mind of man
But fire cannot kill an idea
What’s written still will stand

Statues fall and marble bleeds
Empires vanish, fade like weeds
But echoes hide in grains of sand
And knowledge waits a patient hand

Ashes of Alexandria
Smoke may blind but won’t erase
Through silence rides the soul of learning
In every book, a trace

Let them burn the halls and towers
Stone and script may fall to powers
But light once lit will always glow
Through time, through us, it flows

Ashes of Alexandria
Still the stars above align
What was lost now lives in memory
And finds new breath in time

Ink and fire, fate entwined
The mind survives what dies in kind