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What is the magical source of your power

The form of the barrier warding me off

Derision and laughter, a venomous actor

Is hiding behind every well-meaning mask

Sight cannot penetrate beyond the smokescreen

Vibrations absorbed by the stillness of earth

An arcane language beyond comprehension

Like speaking in tongues, and confusion abounds

I fail

To understand

Decipher

The lexicon

Discover

The secret

I wane

In my

Efforts

To seek out the subtle

Entrance

To reveal

The mechanism

The hidden, the lost, esoteric, concealed

We are the thankless

The scribes of the ancients

Committed to knowing

Sublimest of truths

We must discover

Through painstaking study

The rudiments

Of a world that once was

Unlock

The Heavy

Impenetrable door

To usher in

An aeon

Lost in time

An unrecognizable

Celestial sky

When heavens

And firmament

Touched for the first time