They will resist you, beautiful darling.

When you near your prize

monsters will rise from their lairs

challenge you and prove your mettle.

Show you are worthy

to enter the Cave of Wonders.

Your heart’s desire is at your fingertips

if you survive the barbs and stings

of traps waiting within.

Poisoned arrow tips, strangling nets

sinking sands, total darkness

will try to seal you in

an untimely tomb.

But your blood courses with an

echo of a thousand loving ancestors.

Pick yourself up, strong one.

Climb through the shattered remains

of snares meant for your too-fast feet.

Your goal is within sight

gleaming through tarnished shadows.

Wipe the sweat from your brow.

Stretch out your hand to your destiny

and let no one snatch it from you.