“Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
Proverbs 27:20
An old man in the woods long told the creatures not to go gazing in the pit, nor to search it out, it would snare them.
there was a brave young rabbit who told stories to himself about the pit. He we’re sure whatever was inside it, monsters or dragons, raging enchanted thorns, he could conquer it with his sword. The pit held no horror he could not vanquish. So he never thought of it except as the enemy in his own exploits. But there was always a glimpse his mind’s eye, always a nod to a worthy enemy.
One day while walking through the wood, came to it. It seem to open up in the bushes without warning and for the first time he thought about what he would do if he saw it.
He was curious, so he just peaked at the edge.
There were no monsters, no horrors, cruel twisting things; it was beauty, glory, light, and something he couldn’t quite see.
He also could not see the edge of the pit, which was the maw itself. The first chunks of dirt crumbled off and the mouth yawned. The rabbit craned to see deeper in to the light. He couldn’t pull away. He turned and looked at the trees. He now realized they were brown, there was no real color in the world at all.
He ran back to the edge of the pit and, having lost the colors of the edge, missed it completely and ran in.
“Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
A mouse quivered through the edge of the forest path, she too heard the warning of the old man. But she thought of nothing else. She saw the pit always around the corner, always coming for her, in everyman’s house, and in every girls eye. But the eyes who were filled with it were her own.
One day, the pit within opened up and she was swallowed.
“Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
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