Passageway of shelter at Mordové rokle

Aerial Defense Command Shelter of Central Group of Soviet Forces at Mordové rokle ("Murder Gorges"), part of former military range Mladá/Milovice ("Young"/"Milton") is composed of three large hallways covered by ground and divided by partitions to three levels and many rooms. Someone wrote a poem on one of walls. It has probably quite low artistic value but expresses the atmosphere quite well. It actually rhymed sometimes, but I resigned to translate it that way.:

"Stand quiet and in the dark,
listen as the giant pants
sigh of it and it's moans too
vibrating entrails of walls
make possible to understand
how non-living live can.
A disrupted dragon vein
turned dead into living.
If you want to live on,
lead your steps out of here.
Are you brave, have no fear?
Try it!
Walk the hall!"

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