Part 4 - The Machine

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Judas begins to work as a machinist to help provide for his mother. He finds deep spiritual meaning in the interconnectedness and functionality of each piece of machinery. He finally has found a situation where he can assign a purpose to everything, which is comforting to him. His spiritual connection meets his pinnacle as he sees his role within the machine to be as fundamental as each other part. Ultimately though, he recognizes that this new understanding applies only to a small piece of his life.

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Part 4 - The Machine

A machinist’s work is to understand,
At least well enough to function.
Schematics were lost to time,
So I met the machines on their terms.

But my part was equally crucial
As each gear, each belt, each bolt,
All metal and rubber,
And the air around us.

The noise, the smell,
The blackness on my hands,
Covered every moving piece
And marked my union with them.

I understood my role,
And the role of each interconnected part.
I can still trace every step in the design.

Function was everything,
As everything had its function.
The product of it all meant little to me.
I just found comfort in the orchestration of it all.

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from Exile of the Moon, released December 16, 2018

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Exile of the Moon is a project and a world imagined by Shawn Knabel as a platform for introspective storytelling. The stories revolve around the conflicts between a fictional planet and its moon.

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