Congratuations, you have reached the island.
If Atlantis represented the innocent but patronized world of the new humanity's infancy, the island stands for the rebellion of man's teenage years. A formative period with a pursuit for identity and independence. There's much immaturity and youthful defiance, but also serious endeavours for something higher: loyalty, friendship, and eventually, perhaps love.
For our protagonist, the first dawn in a new world turns out to be something else than he hoped for. In order to find himself, he may first have to lose everything he had, everything he loved, and even himself, in order to rediscover the meaning of his life. Sometimes a loss may provide one with a mission, weakness may teach self-reliance, and a defeat may provide one with the allies one needs for an eventual victory.
Yet our hero should watch out on the terrain of his Neverland, as not everything on the island is what it seems.
* * *
Once upon another time,
We were happy, we could fly
So high, the sky was no limit.
We'd tell each other
We never land.
In Neverland,
For far too long ago
I was Peter.
I could fly on happy thoughts.
When the magic died,
I aged a century in a second.
(...)
Never again
Will the flute enchant these woods.
Never shall they see me
Back as I once was,
The candid boy,
Insolently innocent.
Once upon the time
We landed, got stranded
In never ever land.
Upon opening,
The last of the Russian dolls
Had nothing inside.
("Neverland", by Jan G.)
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