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Sep 27
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Nightheart

Fairy Tale


As I learned long ago,
Life is not a fairy tale,
You are not a princess,
Kissing frogs won't get you a prince,
it will give you warts.
If you lose your shoe at midnight,
You're probably drunk,
and kidnapping is dangerous,
you should not mess with a Beast,
Never trust a boy with a feather in his cap,
and with long hair also comes
split ends.
Mermaids probably don't exist,
If they do they probably'll
die of polution.
We killed native americans
for centuries.
Elsa's snow powers
are no match for global warming,
And you never take food from a stranger,
But a child's imagination exists,
with all it's twists and turns,
and a fairy tale that does exist
is love.
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  1. gg
    Sep 27, 2017

    Whoa. Proving, once again, that fairy tales ARE dark, kind of like folk ballads, dark, dark, dark.

    I love this. You turned my expectations upside down, avoided cliches, said something.

    Thanks for sharing.

    gg

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