Pompeii

The day the sky collapsed on you, to bury you in ash

A tomb of burning lava with a thousand years to pass

Your legacy of wonders, your culture so advanced

No time to stop and wonder, you didn't have a chance

Your gods that day deserted you, the fifth became the last

Your faith was just a vapour, within your lava cast

What once was so majestic is now an ancient tomb

Who's secrets still lie buried, so deep within your womb

The columns and the statues stand silent in the light

No voices fill the market place, no laughter in the night

The children so long sleeping, such tender ghosts to dream

And creeping through the silence, the echoes of your scream