It's All Copper Wire and Soot

It's all copper wire
And soot
The machinery is broken
The cogs won't move and
All the panels are battered
and burned

There's human remains
Skeletons of friends
Memories
The ghosts of the past
A little boy smile and
Little girl hair

And there's no more
of interest
Besides a name on the wall
A name written with sorrow
in pain
Written in anger with hasty strokes

A name that has power
A name scribed in ash
A name that calls me
A name won and lost
and left to stand in the dark

But I can't pronounce it
I can't remember how
It's sound has been lost
burned up
like everything else

Only a skeleton
of it's meaning remains
And I'm trying to read it
But I'm lost
and so are you

In this burned out place