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For the final test, they took her walking
Through rusted hallways and down
Deep into forever
Past the ancient machines
And the ghosts of hope
She passed metal stanchions that devoured light
Stairways twisted and stopped
Terminating nowhere
Fluorescent humming accompanied the sounds of bare feet on metal
As she lost herself deeper

Then they were upon the void
An endless black
She looked and felt its
frighteningly friendly grasp
Pipes ran down
And disappeared
Into the textured abyss
She followed them
With crawling eyes
Until they melted into
Omnipresent shadow
A hand guided her away from the yawning maw
And to the words
Inscribed like clawing scratches on the metal wall beside the gaping empty
“Here came machines
To build us a new world.
They failed
And built us a prison
Now we will never again feel
Sun
To those born in darkness
Strive for light
But beware the infinite
And the empty black”
She turned and asked
“What is the sun?”
“We don't know”
Replied the big man,
“That's so sad. ”
“Yes child, it is”
Willow MacIvor, Wordless wisper

Gimme Shelter, Playing For Change

Full Circle, Loreena McKennitt