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I found myself standing alone, comfortably exhausted

Like a child fallen asleep after a whole day of crying

My senses were numb, my breath just a hiss

I looked around

No flowers, no colorful foliage

Just a cluster of thin trees, an edge of sea beyond

A pale moon above

A secluded hut clinged on the coast

At the flickering light of the autumn dusk

And I had this strange feeling that I had always belonged there

Like a forgotten place of birth

And I was sure that I wanted to stay there forever

At that place without the slightest change

To be both my cradle and my grave