Once upon a time
Each fairy tale begins
A little girl’s favorite story
Where the good guy always wins
Prince Charming would come
To sweep Cinderella away
Love would patiently wait
Where Sleeping Beauty lay
And so each story goes
Spinning a happy tale
Adventures and romances
Where love would never fail
We think of them as wishful
Just as dreamy wiles
The same strange story
Made up in different styles
They lived happily ever after
Each fairy tale ends
Leaving the reader satisfied
With the happy message it sends
They all end the same
A white wedding or a victory
To the ones called heroes
Always make it a joy filled story
Yet I pity the dragon slain
The girl he didn’t pick
For in loneliness they lay
Their hearts growing sick
A tamed dragon in chains
With hot tears in his eyes
Cannot stop the dreams
Of soaring through thte skies
A broken hearted girl
Watching his walk away
With “the damsel in distress”
That he happened upon one day
So tell me now, who really is
The damsel in distress,
The dragon tamed and slain,
And the hero at his best?
These unknown characters
Are where the story fails
For they fail to mention
Their “happy” fairy tails
A silly poem, I know. But it holds so much truth. So often, we read or hear about something, and we don't know the other half of the story. We are quick to think that what is told it truth. But what about hte other bits and pieces that are so critical to the story line? The parts that you don't really want to know because they hit too close to reality... Remember, a story is never told right, if it isn't whole. If it seems to be a fairy tale, it probably is.
-Cherisse Peters
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