“Once upon a time”
Those very words, that formula
So powerful and steeped within my ken
It brings to mind, unbidden
Stories of challenge and loss and love,
Of fighting off evil and siding with friends;
Of worlds so magical, so filled
With sparkling, glitterbomb bliss
It doesn’t matter what happens:
You know the baddies get killed
And the good guys live
“Happily Ever After”
Because that’s what we all want
We’re programmed from the offset
With ideals to chase
And scripted paper dreams to try to flaunt
No matter that inside we’re drying up
Dehydrating from all the tears we cry
Because someone else’s fairytale
Is always better;
Always somewhere we’d rather live
Instead, and so it seems that ‘Happily’
Is nothing but a lie – a false and shining lure,
A broken promise in the making, to trap you by
To help relieve you of a few pounds
Whether in weight or finance
For you need to lose both
In order to be considered
Worthy of *this* kind
Of storyline.
No fairydust
Will help you now
So you sit
Enrobed
Entrapped
In other people’s
Castles
And
You
Cry.
Powerful. Sad ending though. Often too true
Sorry, I used up all my words to write my own poem I fear 😉
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I pretty much have none left, either. Ack.
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Sweet Lizzi…. As a crusty heart rebuilding her own castle of faeridom, I will just sit here beside you in comforting silence. *holds hands*
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Tonight I am empty. Thanks for the sit.
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oh what to say. nuthin… I got nuthin either… will just sit too.
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I feel like a Puddleglum
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Wow good word! Like of schnookered quality!
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Not mine. ‘Tis Narnian
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Oh wow! This reminded me of the novel I just read, Damsel Distressed. Both the book and this poem is beautiful!
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Thank you 🙂
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I’m sitting too. I’m here.
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There really is a lot of sitting. Like the song by James…
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Looks like there is a lot of sitting…
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Just keep sitting, sitting, sitting…what do we do, we siiiiiit
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