Objects Outlive Us: The Cicerones/Ark

Back then, in time, we spoke, up for, the Earth
The truth, the proof, but in, our hearts, the words
We used, were not, to break, or kill, this spell
Only, to warn, to track, the dark, that fell
And now, here we, be the, few that, survive
The ones, who knew, look back, in our, hindsight
Knowing, always, there would, should be, an end
Knowing, it was, just a, question, of when
Each of, these souls, just on in a billion
Each of, the stars, just one, in a trillion
We move, on through, so dead, the void
And still, back there, in dust, the Earth, destroyed

Back then, in time, we spoke, up for, the Earth
The truth, the proof, but in, our hearts, the words
We used, were not, to break, or kill, this spell
Only, to warn, to track, the dark, that fell
And now, here we, be the, few that, survive
The ones, who knew, look back, in our, hindsight
Knowing, always, there would, should be, an end
Knowing, it was, just a, question, of when
Each of, these souls, just on in a billion
Each of, the stars, just one, in a trillion
We move, on through, so dead, the void
And still, back there, in dust, the Earth, destroyed