The Voice in the Well

There are places we should not go to.

There are no Gods and Goddesses down here despite what anyone else might have told you. This is a well, a very dry and old one, but it is the very bottom of everything there is, everything that you know of. They do not send those with hope or means this way. It’s only those without influence and a future that find themselves here. Round the stairs, down and down, did you look over to see the drop, as you made your way here? This is quite a distance from the surface, you do realise that? Look up. That pin prick above your head, at the very centre of the dark circle – that’s the sun. The outside. Everything you had known. Where all things possible are present. Things like hope. Expectation too. But not down here.

Look at me. Hey! Here. Look at me. There is no hope or things like that here. It’s not that they are not permitted but it’s such a long journey down that – fragile things requiring generous amounts of sunlight – they dry up and wither long before reaching the very bottom. This is the very bottom, right here, boy. Congratulations, you’ve made it. That’s the good news. And the only one I’m afraid. To get here, you’ve left behind all the things that would have sustained you in life. Love. Hope. Faith. Especially faith.

Go on. Call them. Call the Gods and Goddesses you know. Any of them.

Don’t look at me that way. You think you’ve still got your faith with you? The one that they taught you from birth. What kind of faith is it that varies based on your place of birth? No, you no longer possess whatever type of faith you had, anymore. What you have is the discarded skin of the version of faith you once knew and held. That faith is no more. Not here.

You don’t believe me, do you ? Go on. Call them. Call the Gods and Goddesses you know. Any of them. Any one of them. Go on. No, I am not challenging you to make them appear. That would be unfair and difficult to do even if you were up there. Yes, I’m pointing to the mouth of the well above us boy. Even up there, you’d be hard pressed to call upon your Gods. No. Being a fair person, I will only ask you to feel the presence of your faith. Call your faith and see if you can feel it, inside you. Is your faith still there ? Is it present? Go on. Ask.

I won’t laugh. I see the look in your face now. The look does not fill me with glee although it used to very much, at one time. Do you know how you look now that you realise I was telling the truth all along? If only I could let you see your own face now. There is nothing more pitiful on earth than to see the face of a human without hope or faith, who knows there is no salvation, that all expectations had been in vain. I have seen that look so many times and each time, when the realisation hits the face of your fellow human being, when they accept that I have been telling the truth, is unforgettable. I am sorry for you boy. But now you are mine.

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