Behind These Walls
Introduction
A vast wall surrounds the City of Darkness. Twenty-nine years of pain and heartache built the wall. It is behind these walls we find our traveler. The traveler’s eyes opened to the darkness within their heart, and strength returned as the Shepard leads them.
Behind these walls
Here I sit behind these walls
with dark and empty city streets.
I hear a song both sad and sweet
to my healing heart it calls.
Without words, a painful ode,
telling of your winding road.
With fear and excitement, I open my city gates,
your Trojan Heart, outside to keep me safe.
With wise trepidation, you enter the city gates.
The crimson tears run down your skin,
your gracious heart bereaved and weary.
I pray these walls a place of safety
where you find rest to start again.
From the boys who have been
too the men yet to come,
all are awakened
by the song you have sung.
They dare to peak from hurt and darkened places.
Your song brings healing to forgotten faces.
Welcomed with hopeful glee,
everyone longing to see
who this new traveler be.
Wrap-up
Our traveler hears a song penetrating the walls of the city. It is a song they have heard before on their winding road.
A Trojan Heart looms outside the city gate. In Greek mythology, the Greek army attempted to destroy the city of Troy. After years of war, they were unsuccessful. The Greek army vanished overnight, leaving nothing but a large wooden horse at the gates of Troy. The Trojans thought it a symbol of Greek surrender and took it inside the city. But, unknown to the Trojans, the horse was full of Greek soldiers. At nightfall, when Troy was asleep, the smuggled soldiers emerged from hiding and opened the city gates. This allowed the returned Greek army to destroy the city.
The wounded traveler has brought a Trojan heart with them, and our traveler is eager to bring them into the city. Because of their wounds, the new traveler knows to leave the Trojan heart outside the gate.
Long-absent joy now fills the dark city. The new traveler changes the past, present, and future.
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