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into a hidden valley walks

a thoughtful man not knowing

he’s the first to stir it’s dust

that he’s reached the place

he once set out to find

too worried to even glance

at the landscape before him

out of the all-engulfing gloom

rises a massive shape in awe now

he beholds the tower of the world

within the ancient walls of a fortress

older than time on this sacred ground

he will face his destiny

one single lit window fills him with hope open swing the doors he steps inside even thicker blackness throws its arms around him blindly he begins his ascent

a hundred eyes staring at me invisible hands tearing at my soul high above a beckoning light one false step an infinite fall dwindling strength crippling fear between me and my uncertain goal

within the ancient...

the single candle that lights

the pergameneous pages

flickers at the entrance of the stumbling warrior think himself in a dream he nears the book of mankind and reads the tale of the coming of the shadow

within the ancient walls of a fortress older than time he turns the page and meets his destiny

the history of the world revealed on the leaves before him his eyes read the tale of the return of the light and as he reads the future of mankind unfolds in all the lands the wanderer once crossed

within the ancient...