Once upon a time in a certain
city, there lived a handsome
young rich and successful
man who had acquired almost
every good
thing life has to offer except one thing. And
that was LOVE. He had no girl to
call his own.
He had no girl in his life to show
him love. The girls he came across either
loved him for
his money or his personality.
None of them
truly loved him for who he really
was, although they pretended to have
so much
fallen in love with him to the
extent that they
even fell sick when he wouldn’t
go out with them. But he was a wise guy; he
wasn’t born
with a silver spoon. He worked
his way to
wealth and had become familiar
with various moves people would make to try
and
manipulate other people and
things to work to their interest
and as such, it became very
impossible for any of those girls to
successfully deceive him into
believing that
they truly loved him. Certainly,
he would
know his true love when he found her. So he began his
search. It crossed his mind that good
girls could only
be found in good places, so
firstly; he hit the
church but didn’t find his true
love there. He then tried the gym but to no
avail. He went
to many wonderful places all-
round the world
and found many wonderful girls
everywhere he went but didn’t find his true
love until one
day as he was driving along a
street in town;
he got into a minor accident that
recorded no casualties. But the people of the
town
became so raged with the young
man for no
particular reason and advanced
to assault him. But just before the violence
went out of
control, a young pretty maiden
showed up at
the scene like an angel spoke to
the people to quit ill-treating the young man.
Amazingly,
the consented to her plea, and
let the young
man be. The young man
thanked the maiden for rescuing him but wondered
what made
the people consent to her plea
without an
argument and concluded that
there must be something special about the
maiden,
something he had to find out.
Perhaps, that
could be his true love. Haha, let’s find out.
The young man wanted to meet
the maiden
and get to know her personally.
But how was
he supposed to do that without being looked
at as a flirt, which he wasn’t. So
he pretended
as though he really wanted to
settle the
matter with the people and stayed back with
them to discuss on some things
which didn’t
really matter. The idea was to
stay back with
the people and pretend to want to make
absolute peace with them in
order to give the
maiden time to walk some
distance away
from the scene before he would hop into his
car and drive towards her to
pick her up and
have some time to discuss with
her. His plan
worked perfectly! After he thanked the girl
for intervening, she received his
thanks and
went along because she was on
her way to
somewhere important to her. A little while
after she had left the scene, the
young man
drove gently towards her and
asked to drop
her off, to pay her back for her kindness. She
resisted initially but consented
after many
pleas from the young man. The
young man
had all the time in the world to discuss with
her and he found out almost all
he needed to
know about the maiden. On
dropping her off,
he asked to meet with her again another time
and she agreed, for she loved
his sense of
humor.
As time passed, they fell in love
and initiated plans of marriage. The young
man was
convinced he had found the girl
his heart
desired, but she was more than
he asked for. There was something about the
maiden. She
was so pretty and only got
prettier as years
passed by. It became very
obvious that there was more to her beauty than
meets the eye.
Everyone honored this young
man for having
found that sort of girl for a wife
in an age where it is absolutely impossible
to find such.
Her regenerative beauty
became a song on
the lips of everyone, both great
and little. Some girls envied her, while
some others got
jealous. Truly, there was
something more
about her beauty that no one
else knew except herself and her mother.
She thought
of letting the cat out of the bag
before tying
the nuts with the young man so
that she won’t end up appearing awful
when the truth
is later discovered. And also that
she doesn’t
end up hurt along the line. After
much deliberations with her mum, they
finally
concluded on letting the young
man know
what regenerates the beauty of
the maiden he’s about to get married to. Two
days to the
wedding day she approached
him in a rather
unusual manner and asked to
speak with him privately in an island. She chose
an island
because she wanted to be sure
the
information she was about to
spill out doesn’t get into the ears of anyone else
but her
husband to be. On arrival at the
island, they
chatted, played and did a couple
of other things before she finally broke
her silence.
She said to him,
Oh’ my dearest,
The one my heart yearns for in
earnest. Your love has set my soul on
fire,
And your kiss remains my
everlasting desire.
Your arms is better refuge than
the mansion of a king,
And your warmth is good
medicine for my
skin.
Thoughts of losing you
threatens my whole being,
But I fear for what will become
of your
beauty queen,
When the secret of her beauty
takes off the veil,
The very thing I brought you
here to tell.
The young man was so
impressed by her
lines, especially by her soft and gentle voice
which transported her message,
but was
puzzled by its content. So he
asked; how can
you ever think of losing me when we have
become almost inseparable?
Yes you indeed
are my beauty queen and you
need not have
fear of anything, for whatever is your
beauty’s secret will only make
me love you
increasingly. So the maiden
gave voice to that
ancient secret which had remained untold
through generations. This she
said; from the
day of my birth till this very
moment I have
known no man. In my linage, it is forbidden
to do so before the wedding
night. And we
are also forbidden to remarry.
Breaking any
of those laws attracts very drastic measures.
But not as drastic as the
measures that will
be attracted if the law
surrounding my
beauty’s regeneration is broken. For me to
keep getting more and more
beautiful as the
years go by instead of
diminishing in beauty,
the one whom I truly love must not take
another woman to his bed after
our wedding
night except me until the day of
his death.
The day he does so, my beauty will vanish and
I will look like a woman four
times older than
my age. It is like an irreversible
curse. Once
done, it cannot be undone. That will be the
end of my beauty, and I will
become an
undesirable sight to behold. It
will all be the
fault of the one who has my heart, and
everyone will get to know that
my condition
is as a result of unfaithfulness
on the part of
the one my love burns for. And I know you
wouldn’t want anything to do
with a woman
four times my age, so definitely,
even you will
cast me away then. But it can be prevented if
you stay faithful to me until
death. And since
you love me so much, that
wouldn’t be a
difficult thing to do will it? The young man
paused for a while and went
deep in thoughts.
Not that he was thinking about
the possibility
of remaining faithful to his wife all his life,
but was wondering how what the
maiden had
just told him could be. The
maiden almost
thought he wasn’t going to consent due to his
reaction and the look on his
face, but he did.
He said to her; it won’t. The
maiden heart was
so gladdened by his response and she straight
way kissed him.
After the wedding day and the
wedding night,
their lives went on peaceably.
But the many girls who had always pretended
to love the
young man never stopped
bugging his life
even after knowing he was
married. They didn’t mind being his mistress.
They tried
their best to seduce the young
man and get
him to cheat on his wife but
were unsuccessful until one of them
with an art of
seduction more appealing than
that of Delilah
came unto him, and he fell for it.
After the act, it dawned on him what the
consequences
of what he had done would be,
and began to
weep bitterly. He wept all along
the way until he got home. His wife could
hear his voice
from her chambers where she
had run to
hide herself when the curse
came on her, for she knew that her husband had
acted
unwisely. Her husband went to
their room
and didn’t find her there, and
then he made his way to her chambers and
found his wife
lying on a mat, looking as old as
a hundred
year old woman. When he saw
her, he wept more bitterly, for his conscience
troubled
him unstoppably. His wife, in her
misery and
depression couldn’t do any more
than sob, for she had accepted her fate
and regretted
ever giving love a chance, unlike
her mother
and grandmothers who didn’t get
married to the men they loved but to the
men they
didn’t love in order to prevent the
fate she
now has to endure for the rest of
her life. All the while she said nothing to him
but later on
she lifted herself from the mat,
sat up and
said to him;
Oh’ my dearest, Of my body I gave you the very
best,
Indeed, I was your very first,
Why did you forsake me for a
mere guest?
You passed exams with flying colors, how
could you have failed a mere
test?
My bosom was to be your only
rest,
But you defiled our bed and have made me a
thing of jest.
Will you now still show me off
and beat your
chest?
Or shall you leave me to my doom just like
the rest?
He got so irritated by her. He
couldn’t stand
being spoken to in such manner
by an old woman, so he left her chambers
at once and
screamed to the top of his voice
because of
what his conscience was doing
to him. He screamed so loudly that the
neighbors knew
that there was something wrong
with him.
They made their way to his
house one after another to inquire of him what
the problem
might be. After a long while of
being pressed
to speak out, he broke the
silence. Then everyone became aware of
what had remained
a secret for nearly ten
generations, because
of a young girl who decided not
to follow the footsteps of her ancestors.
But then, after many thoughts
and opinions
on how to get the problem
solved, it was
realized that the tragedy that had befallen the
his wife cannot be undone, but
can be
transferred if there is someone
who is willing
to take the curse upon him or her and get the
woman restored to her original
state. No one
was ready to do that. Of cause
no one would
be that silly trade his or her youth for old
age. If anyone should do that, it
should be
the man who provoked the
curse to come on
her in the first place. But was he willing to do
so? Guess what? He was! He
asked for the
necessary ritual to be conducted
as soon as
possible because he couldn’t bear the thought
that the woman who risked her
life to love
him was suffering so much
because of him.
He willed everything he had to his wife and
asked for the curse to be
transferred to him,
and it was. His wife was
restored, but he
became old. When that happened, he retired
to the jungle and dwelt there till
the day of
his death while his remained
unmarried but
ever beautiful till she died. Finally, the curse
was broken because she had no
child to
continue with it. The curse was
broken
because she decided to marry the man she
loved, unlike her mother and
grandmothers
who married men they didn’t
love and bore
them children to continue with the curse for nearly one hundred
years. LOVE BROKE THE
CURSE. ***THE END*** PLEASE
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