The Underground City

 

Finding what is lost, or perhaps hidden

Congratulated by criminals, then attacked

For some things are meant to remain

Lost — Yet we want to discover them

Mystery that gives life meaning

More than remaining content

With the banalities of well-ordered

Existence — For at least a little while

We crave moments of adventure and exploration

Changing and growing — Becoming

Always within the great mystery of the Universe

Infinite possibilities — Borderland between worlds

Gates, doors, windows — Crossroads of the Multiverse

Containing the Physical Universe as well — The Underground

Too — City of impossible possibilities — Almost anything

You could want can be found, for a price — That which is free

Is the highest cost — Baby dragons, trolls, elves, even humans

All manner of magical creatures, refugees from the World of Faerie

Sometimes even royalty, carving out their own realm of influence

Close to Earth, the land of the waking and sunlight, mundane reality

They are responsible for many of the wonders here, there

Giving even the most industrial a spark of magic, even in the most

Grey places, especially there, in the corporate boardrooms

Magic is afoot — But there are always rules, as with any great power

And consequences for breaking with tradition and the old ways

But that does not stop those who are greedy for power, fame, love

Exploiting the artifacts and beings from other worlds beyond the physical

For selfish and short-sighted purposes — Ancient wisdom and knowledge

Turned to evil means if not evil ends — But there is always more good

Guardians of the ancient ways and the new as well, working for The Balance

Against unrestrained Darkness inside and outside each individual human

Soul — Light overcoming Shadow — No matter how necessary in small amounts

To preserve and protect Life — The gateway between worlds must remain

Safe from undue influence from creatures of darkness — The Crossroads

World of Dreams, playground for gods, demons, faeries — The Key to the Universe

Revolving around the Earth, focal point of human consciousness — Useful conceit

Protection from outside forces — The elements of wind, fire, water, earth, sky

The  ocean and the shore, the stairway circling upwards to heavenly worlds

And downwards to more earthy realms — The purple dome of the underground city

Architecture of all times and places combined in a strange milieu of mystery

Many cultures, races, beings of light and darkness — Even parallel universes

Different for each visitor, shared for those with strong bonds of friendship

Or antagonism — Love, growing and changing together, alone — Possibility

Becoming, being — Five dimensions, elements — Beyond time yet within all times

Always self-existing, circular — The center of the long staircase — The Star

Eye in the triangle — All that is, was, and shall be — Alone, together — True Love Eternal