A Villain and a Heroine. A story told in rhyme.

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The blush of love's awakening

as hearts are intertwined.

What shall this Ever After bring?

A bridal veil, a golden ring?

But Fate is such a fickle thing

when love is on the line.

Our tale unfolds beneath the boughs

of ancient woodland glade,

where night-wind stirs the restless leaves

and moonlight-dappled shade

as shards of crystal, deadly, gleaming,

weave the threads of magic's seeming.

Caught within this web of Dreaming

sleeps the spellbound maid.

A chamber of immensity

immersed in candlelight,

bedecked in glowing tapestry

and hung with streamer bright.

Before her dazed and dreaming eyes

the spell begins to hypnotize,

the fantasy to mesmerize

with each bewitching sight.

She moves among the opulence

unwary of the sneers,

the taunting of the occupants

whose laughter sounds like tears.

Fine Dancers garbed in bright array

all move with purpose; bodies sway

enticingly in lewd display

discrepant of their jeers.

Unwary still, she pushes through

the crowd of grasping hands.

An unknown countenance she seeks,

the stranger who commands

her thrumming h...

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