Books Portals to faraway magic worlds And time machines to the past and present Gateways to parallel universes Made from the bodies of long dead giants That lived and grew as far as the eye could see Slaughtered by the thousands And drenched in the blood of liquid night In strange characters in rows one after the other We are the hopes and dreams of the crafter And the living embodiment of the mind of the user We are the collective knowledge of a civilization And the collective imagination of them too We are the storytellers of eras gone by And eras yet to pass We paint ourselves with bright colors In order to attract the eye of the user We say what we tell on our backs But we are dying Our users ignore and abuse us Thereβs so few left to share our knowledge with And when we can't share our knowledge We die Once we die so too dies all hope for a better future