And so it was that, shivering and filthy among the pit, belted by rain and b..... by wind the explosions are more austere To drink of the sadness and hush down below. The silence ............ gave the .......... Of other places separated by breath .................blood. The torches were lit, our faces revealed ............... the smoke of elders. We lie with the ancestors and witness the grief, the world. When the thorns have pierced our tongues and the blood has been .... and the colour is red, the abyss of d**h is coated anew.