Act II
After Cassano escaped with the Lady,
The Dark One’s anger began to flare,
The pretty island’s face painfully writhed,
As it exhaled a sickly stench into the air;
The false paradise powerfully quaked and its
malevolent skin became heavily scarred,
It transformed into a dark, wicked wasteland,
Whose grisly visage was blackly charred.
A few days later, Gonzalo groggily awoke
On its cadaverous black-sand beach,
Dagger-like lightning bolts lit his path,
And shelter he was hoping to reach;
The vomited lava flow had hardened,
But it was still warm under his feet,
He was all alone in this ghastly place,
So his heart was drumming a beat.
In the gloom, he saw the mouth of a cave
And it was bursting with fiery light,
Standing in the midst of murky black mud,
He began to hear shrieks of utter delight;
He silently and stealthily peeked inside,
Not very sure of what he would see,
Dozens and dozens of merry maidens
Danced convulsively with reckless glee.
Looking inside, there was a massive cavern,
With flames seductively bright,
Lava cascaded smoothly down the walls,
Like a bubbling curtain of red light;
Spear-like stalactites of ice jutted out,
In the colors of a dazzling rainbow,
And everything which Gonzalo observed
Was bathed in the most enchanting glow.
The large chamber had a circular base,
And the lava flowed into a moat,
Transporting passengers back and forth
Was a grand and luxurious boat;
This moat ringed around a tropical forest,
Its trees loaded with the juiciest fruit,
And the song of the siren-like girls
Sweetened the sensual strings of a lute.
Gonzalo breathed in the scent of spices
And was captivated by its lovely perfume,
But then he noticed a flaming black altar
Was located in the dead center of the room;
Dozens of magic maidens erotically danced,
Filled with electric ecstasy around the altar,
They spasmodically writhed in wild delight
Until their girlish strength began to falter.
There was not a single man to be seen,
It was a world of the most beautiful girls,
Their colorful dresses were short and tight,
And they were stitched with little pearls;
Suddenly, one of the maidens leaped up --
She was playful and seemed ready for fun,
She screamed with joy, “Look up, girls!
That handsome man must be The One!”
To be continued tomorrow…