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The Pit
At the bottom of the pit
there burns no fire, only cold.
And there is silence,
deep, deep silence
filled with vile imaginings.
At the bottom of the pit
there is no turn of night to day.
There is no sun, there is no moon
and all the stars have gone astray.
In the deep, foreboding pit
there lies a silent infant girl;
beside her stands her innocence -
an unlit candle in the gloom
of the bottom of that pit
where nothing else may bare to live.