Walls within walls
Doorways within doorways
Once forbidden
Once foreboding
Doorways within doorways
Once forbidden
Once foreboding
Layers of mystery
Peeled away
By time
Politics
And Money
Tourists stray
The hallways
Of power once wrought
Now still and silent
The Forbidden City
Beijing, China
Taken during travels, 1998
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