So Much For Fairytales

 

So Much For Fairytales

So much for fairytales

So much for truth

I thought you loved me

But I have no proof.

I thought the sun glowed

And shined for me

That you painted skies only

For my heart to see.

Never truly believing

In true love before

I believed when you came

You brought love to my door.

And the days just like flowers

Grew from soil that was dead

And the nights just like feathers

From two hearts made a bed.

It was moonlight and roses

It was starlight and rain

Till your soul drained of passion

Turned each pleasure to pain.

And our volume of poetry

Illustrated so fair

Now a book of blank pages

With no poems rhyming there.

The hero, the villain

With each purpose and plan

Dropped all masks and revealed

They were both the same man.

I don't read anymore

I don't dream, don't believe

I'm no longer the maiden

With her heart on her sleeve.

All my skies gone to gray now

All my laughter to wails

I see the truth and the fable

In your grim fairytales.

With your kiss, I awakened

From my sad dreamless sleep

Now I return to my slumber

And the darkness so deep.

Just a princess with no prince

Songless voice, void of laughter

You gave me 'once upon a time'

Without a 'happy ever after.'

©by Voo Shining Stone

July 25, 2021