So they did, left their bones in the dust for archeologists armed with soft brushes and spoons for digging. We learn change means extinction. I believe it after eating so many shadows thinking the darkness would fill me but always left hungry. An archeologist studying the past to find what has left us what will leave us again. Nothing is forever all diamonds are turning back into coal the jeweler knows, armed with magnifying glasses and the tiniest tools.
Diamonds are cut with water the softest substance always shapes the hardest.
The archeologist answers the question digging for years finding nothing. Until eventually we don't recognize ourselves.