There is a voice that calls me to it,
from the bottom pit of a well.
To approach its lonesome stone and gravel,
to hear all that it can tell.

No beast of flesh, nor plant of green
dare grow by where it dwells.
No birds of song dare come along
to see and bid me farewell.

It voices to me in beggar’s tones,
it enjoins me to come near
and if I were to ignore such imploration,
it would only be out of fear.

Thus, I with my shovel,
to dig the peat holes for the dead
dare approach it’s lonely being
and renounce the feeling of dread.

As I step, I hear a girlish cry
coming forth from the sodden hole.
When I breathe I feel a sudden tremor,
rise up from within my soul.

I drew near upon this strange little island,
cast away in a withering sea,
where those lost came to find sunnier days,
where no one heard the voice but me.

I listened, as the words grow louder,
filling up with treacherous glee.
And before I realized where my feet were going,
I was in front of it no longer free.

This empty void of hidden duality
stood bidding my soul to sleep,
and perhaps forgetting all that had come my way,
I ignored the memories that weep.

It ensnared my mind with promises,
that voice of sinister proportion
and enchanted I listened to every word and every prayer,
to the song of a deceitful mortician.

I leaned forth with all my weight within
and breathed the scent of decay.
“Behold the darkness of man!”, the voice said.
“Hidden always by the light of day.”

My fingers gripped the stony cauldron,
frozen by the likes of time.
My face plunges deep within the utter emptiness,
which reveals to me all that could be mine.

I dreamed up a brilliant world that day,
shown to me only then.
A world where I was a lone champion
and never appearing without friend.

A place for my person,
and my person alone.
The epitome of glory,
in a place I call “home”.

I looked and I looked,
I kept searching the sound
of the voice that had led me there
and did not notice my feet leave the ground.

I teetered and I tottered,
to focused in bliss to care,
and when the whole world seemed to fade away,
its escape was more than I could bare.

And then suddenly,
all I did was let go.
All the feelings I had ever felt before
flooded down to where only it knows.

And I with my pride,
and I with my sin
was neither shocked nor surprised to find out,
that it was I who also fell in.