Merlin's Cave

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Merlin's Cave


Love-cursed is right;
you didn't do it; 
least not the cursed part.

No, you are no gorgon,
not even close. 

I always wonder how anyone ever made it through
your walls.

And how many defeated their head on the out-
side 

I feel I am walled up
inside your wall.
I can't go forward and I can't go backward.
And every direction I turn, I'm surrounded by your absence.

Does Anteros with his inverted arrows
satisfy, being turned to stone?

All I see beyond a scorched forest of the Impossible,
my drive and goal,
Love, even more impossible.

I might as well believe in God.