It is said, among the legends of 'Merlin', 'he was a fool for women'. As he grew older, his amore, grew greater. He always loved them, but he loved them young...as well. He grew to love one, in particular.
Her name was 'Nimue', (pron: nim-way). Under orders, it is further told...she approached the enchanter, to woo him into carelessness, to 'give up' his most magical understandings. At these, feminine wiles...she was master.
But, there was another, mastered her...a certain 'Lilith', of the garden, said to have been the first wife of Adam, in the beginning of our world. Lilith, that same serpent, sent to ruin 'man'...in all.
So, Nimue, overthrown by Lilith came, tempting, and by guile...convinced poor Merlin, of her love. He gave it all to her, and when he had...she knew, and Lilith too, how to lock the mage away. 'Anger him, beyond all grief'...that, vengeful will of ego, his divine, do all the rest.
Then, there, the trap was sprung, where in his forest, 'he was lost' to his own isolation...Lilith's magic won. The 'castle withouten walls', or 'the glass castle', as it's called...his own anger, and unforgiveness...became his very prison...its walls high, too high for him to overcome.
Thus, for ages unknown, Merlin knowing not himself...in that regard, for women...suffered ever on, as Lilith had her way. Then, as the span of time grew long, the age for man grew short...'a peculiar thing' happened.
A poem, written, spell broken, lays before thee plain, beneath...'a kindled curse'. Let this explain, the 'order of the day, anew! Let this explain, 'forgiveness', is the way around the hardest harm. Know, 'now Merlin's free!', in the forest of his mind...
...so mote it be!
Written by Bruce James Clyde, at Deming, New Mexico
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