| I raised my eyes and not without effort, I sat up stretching my numb bones.
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| What I saw caused such an impact on me that even today after so many years makes the
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| blood flees terrified from my veins. |
| The landscape had totally changed.
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| All around me hundreds of trees of all kinds and sizes seemed
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| shake off their forced immobility. |
| The branches in an exercise
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| Impossible they stripped the bark from every tree. |
| And as in a birth
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| bewitched or a supernatural childbirth, from the interior of each tree they began to
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| showing heads and bodies in human form… In some way that I still haven’t managed
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| understand, I was inside an enchanted forest. |
| A forest that
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| was on the maps, in a corner of the world where magic and witchcraft
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| they dwelt from when life was young.
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| At that very moment the same voice that had woken me up began to whisper
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| a cadence that I had never heard before the story of the place where I
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| found.
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| You are in the City of Trees. |
| That's what we call, those of us who dwell here,
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| to this forest half purgatory half cemetery of people who after
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| to die have been condemned to spend the rest of their existence converted into
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| trees. |
| They are only allowed to revert to human form on moonlit nights
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| full. |
| They are people like you who, before dying, threw their lives overboard,
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| their dreams and despised the greatest gift that any being ever,
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| except the human, never had; |
| Love. Love for others, for oneself,
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| to life, love to fight and chase your dreams.
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| The voices emptied that cursed place of silence and while the moon
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| elbowed his way through the clouds, little by little they were approaching towards
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| mine those unfortunate souls, those souls in pain. |
| And that's how each one
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| He told me his particular story...
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| Once upon a time
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| Long time ago
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| a kingdom lost in a faraway place.
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| the night gave up
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| to the dream of eternity
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| rites, witchcraft, souls seeking peace.
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| Don't sleep, don't go in, don't look back
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| don't yell, don't listen, don't pray it won't help you.
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| The night gives way to the ritual
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| awakening the curse
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| the forest is haunted by evil
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| There is a full moon, protect yourself.
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| every soul in pain
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| it is a condemned tree
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| to become human
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| and look for the light.
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| Dead, undead, with a story to tell.
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| His eyes are wells of pain
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| burrows of sorrow and sadness
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| reservoirs of stagnant solitude
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| and each tree is his coffin.
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| Welcome to the city
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| of the lost trees
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| where nothing is what you see
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| where nothing is reality.
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| You have arrived in the city
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| to the land of the lost
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| where every evening
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| trees cry.
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| The night gives way to the ritual
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| awakening the curse
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| the forest is haunted by evil
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| There is a full moon, protect yourself.
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| Welcome to the city
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| of the lost trees
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| where nothing is what you see
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| where nothing is reality.
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| You have arrived in the city
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| to the land of the lost
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| where every evening
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| trees cry. |