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The Secret Door

Not the door under the stairs,

crudely hidden behind the wardrobe;

I mean the one papered over,

covered with paneling under that,

bricked in,

replaced with something else entirely.

That door.

It's still there, you know,

been there since long before the house was built,

will outlast the house.

If you can find it, and go through,

you won't come back,

that's the thing,

do you stay there because you want to?

Are held prisoner/killed/transformed into some hideous thing?

Hell, I don't know, but somebody is going to find out,

like the privileged few have before.

This time, it could be you.